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No. 3 



BROWN'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE 

The Brown Alumni Monthly is 
not a partisan publication. Among 
its readers are Republicans, Demo- 
crats and, we suppose, members of 
all the other parties. 

All of them are interested, how- 
ever, we feel sure, in the candidacy 
of Charles Evans Hughes of the 
class of 1881 for President of the 
United States. 

Mr. Hughes is just now return- 
ing from his second long speaking 
tour in the West. He has been 
greeted by great throngs and has 
put an abundance of "punch'" into 
his addresses. His faculty for in- 
cisive analysis has also been prom- 
inently displayed. We have a way 
at Brown of saving that there is 
something distinctive about the 
Brown analytic method of instruc- 
tion. Older graduates refer it back 
to the days of President Francis 
Way land, and many a man wil- 
lingly admits the value of Professor 
Bancroft's theme and essay plan, 
with its carefully balanced "intro- 
duction, discussion, and peroration 
or conclusion." 

To (juote Professor Bancroft 
again, "Far better is the (piiet ap- 
preciation of a small audience than 
the noisy tumult of popular assem- 
blies. '* But Mr. Hughes has tasted 
the latter joy to the full — and 
found it satisfying, no doubt. 

It may not be amiss to say that 
President Woodrow Wilson, Mr. 
Hughes's chief opponent, is an 
honorar}^ graduate of Brown, hold- 
ing its degree of Doctor of Laws. 




CHARLES EVANS Hl'GHES 
Copyright by Harris & Ewins- Washington, D. C, 1916 



STUDENT LIFE AT BROWN SIXTY YEARS 

AGO 



The following letter has been presented 
to the college by Miss Catherine Sand- 
ford of New York City, daughter of 
Eliot Sandfordjto whom it was addressed 
in 1854. William P. Wetherell, the 
writer, was a student here from 1854 to 
1856. We have no further record con- 
cerning him except that he came from 
Taunton. Two other men of the same 
name from the same place attended 
Brown about the same time, Simon B. 
Wetherell, a student from 1850 to 1853, 
and James Madison Wetherell, from 
1853 to 1855. Neither of them gradu- 
ated. James Madison is said to have 
been a merchant in Englewood, 111. : 

Brown University, Nov. 4th, '54. 
Friend Eliot : 

Again do I resume my pen to answer 
your letter, which I have just received. 
I am greath' obliged to you for your 
pains in writing me, and it is with great 
pleasure that I do so now. I had the 
greatest piece of pleasure last Saturday I 
ever had and perhaps may never have 
again. Saturday the game of foot ball 
came off between the students of Mass. 
and the students of the rest of the world. 
The students of Mass. number 82 and 
"the rest of the world," something over 
150. The Massachusetts boys beat 3 
out of 5 after a long and arduous struggle. 
Such cheering by the students of Mass. 
and groans from the students of the rest 
of the world you cannot imagine and I 
cannot describe it. After the foot ball 
game was over we had a foot race on 
Waterman St., next to Hope college. 
The street was crowded with students. 
We had the race in 4 divisions. Rhode 
Island had one victor, Ohio another and 
the old Bay State the other two. After 
the race we formed into a line single file 
and marched up the whole length of the 
street, Mass'ts boys ahead up into the 
yard front of the college. Then we gave 
three cheers for Mass. , for the union and 



for the i-est of the world. We then 
went upon the steps in front of the 
Chapel, where there was a recapitulation 
of what I have mentioned, only as loud 
and as enthusiastic again. We then 
went up into Pandemonium single file 
and then commenced our usual cheering 
again. Pluto was cheered very heartily, 
(the register of the college). Pandemo- 
nium you know means next to hell, and 
Pluto means prince of devils. We then 
retired (juietly to our rooms. In the af- 
ternoon there was another scene. The 
initiation day was at hand. Then the 
rivalry was between the United Bro's 
and the Philermenian Society's. There 
was talking enough about the superiority 
of each other's societj^'s to fill volumes. 
I joined the best, the Philermenians. The 
Phils took the most of the fresh men ; 
which silenced the Bro's and noised the 
Phils. The blue ribbon was victorious, 
the white, milk and water, w^as defeated. 
I made a remark upon being called upon 
as did all the rest. I think I will say 
no more this time but I wish you would 
tell everj'body you think will think any- 
thing about it, about that foot ball 
game, as we are desirous of having it 
circulated, but please not hint that I 
told you. Write soon and much. 
Your friend 
AVm. 

THE SANDFORDS 
Eliot Sandford, to whom the pre- 
ceding letter by William Wetherell was 
written, did not attend Brown, although 
for four generations members of his fam- 
ily have been students here. He was a 
son of Rev. Enoch Sanford of the class 
of 1820, but retained the middle d in 
his name. Rev. Enoch Sanford and his 
brothers. Rev. John, 1812, Rev. James, 
1812, and Rev. Baalis, 1823, were the 
sons of Joseph and Eleanor (Macomber) 
Sanford of Berkeley, Mass. Joseph San- 



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ford had served in the Revolutionary 
War, and is said to have been quartered 
in Providence with other troops in Uni- 
versity Hall. 

The oldest son, James, learned his 
trade of his father in Berkeley, and was 
allowed time enough by his father to at- 
tend the common school. When twenty 
years old, he had accumulated by his 
trade and by teaching S500, and on ac- 
count of his love for learning and his de- 
sire for usefulness, he entered the Bristol 
Academy at Taunton and prepared for 
college under the Rev. Simeon Daggett. 
He graduated from Brown in 1812 in 
the first grade, became a Presbyterian 
minister and preached for about fifty 
years. 

Jolin Sanford, brother of James, "was 
early of a serious turn of mind and much 
devoted to the reading of poetry and 
history; his imagination was w^armed and 
his superior natural talents received a 
literary impulse. He entered college in 
1809, a year in advance, in the class with 
James. Pursuing his classical studies too 
ardently, sitting over his books perhaps 
fifteen hours a day, he broke down, 
brought on ophthalmia and nervous de- 
bility, which prostrated him at intervals 
for many years. He retained his stand- 
ing in his class, however, by having his 
brothers and friends read to him. In 
1818 he became pastor at South Dennis 
and preached there twenty years, when 
he removed to Amherst to educate his 
sons Baalisand John Eliot Sanford." 

Lnoch Sanford, the third brother, be- 
gan teaching school at seventeen, at ten 
dollars a month and "boarded round." 
He fitted for college at the Phillips 
Andover Academy, and graduated at 
Brown in 1820. He was later appointed 
a tutor with Horace Mann at Brown. 
He preached for many years. He mar- 
ried, in 1823, Caroline White of Wey- 
mouth, and had three sons, Edward, 
Enoch Warren, and Eliot Sanford, to 



whom William Wetherell wrote the let- 
ter. 

Baalis Sanford, the last of the four 
brothers, "was brought up more tenderly 
than the other brothers. By the time 
he was four years old he could read well 
in the New Testanient. He was soon 
by his brother, John, put upon his Latin 
Grammar,and under him soon learned eas- 
ily to translate in Virgil's Aeneid. He 
began to teach school at the age of six- 
teen," and graduated from Brown in 
1823. He studied three years at An- 
dover Theological Seminary and preached 
nearly thirty -five years. 

Dr. Enoch Warren Sanford, son of 
Rev. Enoch Sanford, was fitted for col- 
lege at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Mass. He entered Brown in the class 
of 1856 and remained three years, leav- 
ing to take up the study of medicine. 

Caroline Eleanor Sanford, grand- 
daughter of Rev. Enoch Sanford, and 
daughter of the late Dr. Edward San- 
ford of Attleboro, was one of the 
young women who, in 1876, were per- 
mitted through the intercession of Mr. 
Edward H. Cutler and Prof. Nathaniel 
F. Davis to take the preliminary exam- 
inations at Brown with the now famous 
class of 1881. While the examinations 
were satisfactorily passed, the doors weie 
tightly closed, and the young women 
w^ere forced to go elsewhei-e to college. 

Prof. John Augustine Sanford, only 
son of Dr. Edward Sanford, and grand- 
son of Rev. Enoch, also fitted for col- 
lege at the Providence High School un- 
der Mr. Cutler, and graduated from 
Brown in 1882. He was professor of 
Latin in Adelphi College, Brooklyn, N. 
Y., and died there in 1913. 

Lawrence Sanford Eliot of Attlebor- 
ough, Mass., class of 1909, is a great- 
grandson of Rev. Enoch Sanford, and 
nephew o." Prof. John A. Sanford. He 
is in business in Attleboro. 

Louise Pj-osser Bates 



BROWN VERSE 

THE MASTER-WORKMAN 

Cold is the hand that wrought so skilfully 

Till seventy years were past. 'Twas yesterday 
We laid his clay beside its brother clay, 

And left it, sad that we no more should see 

The master, for he wrought in that degree, 
His works his monument; and if men say 
Hawthorne or Whistler or Frank Hathaway, 

What matters it? The test is mastery. 

That such should pass from Earth to other scenes 

Is nothing strange. They have attained the bound 
Of her instruction, and can but repeat 

The lesson learned. We linger, the unmeet. 

To whom, still striving, still imperfect found. 
This life apprenticeship, not mastery, means. 

Harry Lyman Koopman 

THE CLOUDLET 

fleecy cloudlet, floating by, 
Driven across the eternal sky 

Relentless on, 

1 am as thou, and, as 1 pass. 
Leave but a shadow on the grass 

And then am gone. 

Beneath the burning, brief caress 
Of rosy-flushing happiness 

My heart grows light, 
Just as the sunset's ardent glow 
Crimsons thy pearly gleaming snow 

Ere falls the night. 

Then the pale moon, calm and serene. 
With silver fingers, all unseen. 

Adorns thy crest. 
Until the stars, her handmaids, flee 
Before thy shining radiancy. 

The beauty-blest. 

Elsie Northup, 1917 

From the Sepiad, (Women's College in Brown University) 



60 



JOY IN THE MORNING 

Last night the sun went down as red 

As poppies in a garden bed, 

And on the east horizon line 

The yellow moon began to shine — 

Betwixt the evening and the day 

The luminous land in beauty lay. 

But up the stair and past the hall 
The sun and moon shone not at all, 
And whispering dusk and tiptoe gloom 
Held sway within a scented room. 
Held sway with Pain and dull Despair, 
Who wrought their ghostly labors there. 

I saw night's splendor touch the land 

And light the candles of the sand ; 

I saw the mirroring harbor yield 

The hues it wrapt from wood and field ; 

I saw earth flaming red and gold — 

Transfigured — and it left me cold. 
* * * 

To-day the rain comes slanting down 

Upon the drenched and dripping town. 

The gutter runs in mimic wrath 

Beside the desolated path. 

A huddled horse beneath a tree 

Is brother to all misery. 

But yet my courage fashions wings, 
And o'er the tempest sweeps and sings; 
The gutter with its muddy roar 
Is Laughter on a shimmering shore. 
And ev'n the husky harbor bell 
Shouts through the storm that all is well. 

For up the stair where lately clung 
Dim ghosts, the blinds are open Hung, 
And She who lies upon the bed 
Almost as still as lie the dead, 
Expended, frail, but fever-free. 
Has pressed my hand and smiled at me. 

Henry Robinson Palmer 



BROWN AND ANDOVER 



We have had occasion in the past to 
refer to the many ties between Brown 
University and Phillips Andover Acad- 
em}'. These ties are recalled by the 
latest number of the Phillips Bulletin. 

Under the head of "Two former Phil- 
lips Teachers" are portraits and bio- 
graphical notices of two Brown men, 
LeRoy Freese Griffin and M. Clement 
Gile. The Bulletin says of the former: 
"Phillips students of the early seven- 
ties will remember the alert step and 
smiling face of the Peabody Instructor 
of the Natural Sciences. Professor Le- 
Roy Freese Griffin was a graduate of 
Brown University in the class of 1866, 
having fitted for college at Phillips Ex- 
eter, and leaving Brown entered at once 
upon the teaching profession, coming to 
Andover in 1871 and remaining four 
years. He taught subsequently at Ped- 
dle Institute, Hightstown, N. J., Lake 
Forest, 111., Colby Academy, N. H., and 
Spencer, Mass. In all these places he 
proved an inspiring and efficient teacher. 
He was the author of several text-books 
and a contributor to journals of repute. 
He was ordained to the ministry in 1884 
and served as pastor of churches at North 
Easton and Westwood, and died two 
months ago in the latter place." 
Of Professor Gile it says : 
"A friend, counsellor, and benefactor 
of Phillips Academy finished his life 
work April 28, at Colorado Springs, 
Col. Moses Clement Gile, a native of 
Haverhill, a graduate of the Academy 
in 1879, a graduate of Brown in 1883, 
and for nine years an instructor in Phil- 
lips, enthusiastic and well beloved, served 
for nearly twenty-five years the commu- 
nity grouped about Colorado College. 
He was a teacher, strict in discipline, 
winsome in demeanor, self-forgetful in 
conduct, stimulating in character, and a 
man who gave without stint his best to 
all civic and Christian activities in the 
city and state. His own university and 
the college of his later years bestowed 



upon him the degree of Doctor of Let- 
ters." 

PROFESSOR FORBES ON TEACHING 
At the Andover Commencement this 
3^ear, the presiding officer at the annual 
dinner in the (gymnasium introduced 
Professor Charles H. Forbes, (Brown '90), 
as follows: "It is fitting at this time 
that we should select as our next speaker 
a member of the Faculty, and one whom 
we delight to honor. He is a man who 
has worked consistently, faithfully, loy- 
ally, and with credit to himself and the 
institution, for twenty- five years. In 
the absence of our honored Principal he 
lias taken hold of the reins and has guided 
our affairs safely, and he is one of the 
popular instructors of this institution. 
It is a pleasure to call upon him, and I 
am going to introduce him affectionately 
as 'Chai'lie' Forbes." 

Professor Forbes said in part : 
"Twenty-five years becomes an amazing 
range of time when spoken of as a 'quar- 
ter of a century.' The first quarter of 
a century we are gods of the ruling gen- 
eration ; the second (juarter of a century 
we must give to our work ; and the 
third (juarter century — to which I am 
now looking forward — leads over the 
Great Divide to the more or less genial 
slopes to the Golden Gate. I have 
passed as many years in Andover as I 
had previously passed in the world; and 
I am climbing up toward the Golden 
Gate, somewhat laboriously, but cheer- 
fully, to meet the Great Divide which is 
graciously hidden in the mists ahead 
from my not too inquisitive eyes. . . . 
"One who has lived for so long in 
more or less intimate touch with youth 
may perchance be inclined to forget that 
he himself is not permanently possessed 
of that youth. We see youth always 
about us; we live in its spirit; we sym- 
pathize with its range. We may forget 
that they are birds of passage that come 
and go. For the plumage is always the 



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63 



same, and, thank God. they always sing 
the same songs. It is only chanticleer 
that is growing old — and he is crowing 
as much as he can. 

"A life with young men — lam trying 
to speak intimately to-day, I am twenty- 
five years old — a life with young men is a 
life in which one is supposed to be teach- 
ing. After the years have passed by there 
comes over one the necessary reflection 
as to what he himself has been taught. 
I have found many things out of young 
men; they have taught me a great deal. 

"You cannot get boys to move any- 
where in the line of thinking unless you 
have got some thought that is moving 
in yourself and stimulates them to simi- 
lar eflx)rt. Thinking does not come by 
calling it to come ; thinking comes by 
observing somebody think. And it is a 
pitiful teacher who finds in his classroom 
the only real thinking done in the seats, 
and not behind the desk. I sometimes 
feel as if every teacher seriously needs to 
say to himself many and many times 
during the year: 'Am I thinking as mj- 
boys are thinking at the present mo- 
ment. '' Am I entering as many fresh 
fields as they are entering.^ Ami grow- 
ing as much as they are growing.? Am 
I just plain studying as hard as my pu- 
pils are studying whom i so generously 
judge?' I am giving the thing away, 
gentlemen. Those on the Faculty know 
what I mean. But after twentj^-five 
years you can give away somethings." 

"The Faculty of Andover have al- 
ways held it as one of the tenets of their 
belief, one of the tenets of their faith, 
that growth shall not stop in front of 
the desk. Professor Moore this morn- 
ing spoke the words which complete the 
thought far better than I can ; that this 
'prepared preparedness' is a process 
which has no ending. I am accustomed 
to say to my boys, not, 'You are prepar- 
ing for life. ' That is nonsense to say to 
anybody. The thing to say to them is : 
'You are living your life; what are you 
doing with it.? Your opportunities are on 
every hand ; are you meeting them as 



they come.? That is all you have got to 
meet ; you cannot meet it until it comes. ' 

"I have learned also that the initial 
steps in the development of taste, of re- 
finement, and discrimination, must begin 
here, or they have small chance of be- 
ginning anywhere. And I have learned 
also that in these matters it is the teach- 
er's part not to talk about those things, 
but to exhibit those qualities. Taste, 
like thought, comes from contact with 
taste. A man may talk about some- 
thing which he does not show, and his 
pupils will give him his answer. Sleep 
is the comforter of every troubled life. 

"I have also learned, and to my cost, 
as have all my fellows, that the teacher's 
weaknesses are his strongest teaching 
powers. There is not a boy who does 
not fail to learn them. They may miss 
their teacher's strength, and they may 
despise him, but they know everv one of 
his weaknesses. And in that measure he 
has taught them more than he knows. 
Later results may come home to him. 

"I have learned that whatever the 
subject may be, — change the value if 
you will in the future, you have still got 
a subject to teach, — you will find no 
subject in this world in which all those 
fellows will sit down and say : 'Thank 
God, I have got this subject and it is the 
only one in the world. ' 

"Teaching is an audacious task, in 
which we are all more or less at sea ; the 
question of what to do with the human 
mind, how we shall treat it and make it 
grow, is a terribly responsible task. We 
are surviving under it, but we appreci- 
ate the responsibilities at times. There 
is nothing that could possibly happen to 
a teacher of long standing in his work 
which would bring him greater regret 
than to have a father who had been un- 
der him feel that he must say to his son : 
'I do not want you to be under that bun- 
gler, as I was. ' These are the things 
that come home to a man who has to 
handle the sons of some of the men whom 
he previously handled as boys. 



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"I have finished my twenty-five years; 
I will finish my speech, lest it be as long. 
I have enjoyed those years. I would like 
to live them all over again." 

A TRIBUTE TO MR. HUGHES 
At the same exercises. Principal 
Stearns of Andover said : 

"I have come to believe and to know 
that the people as a whole still recog- 
nize the truth that character must be 
the corner-stone of real worth in the in- 
dividual and in the nation. We have 
had a wonderful illustration of that fact 
in only very recent days. The country 
has passed one of the great crises in its 
history, and the nation's eyes have been 
turning toward that convention in Chi- 
cago where a man was to be nominated 
who in the judgment of a large number 
of our citizens was to carry forward the 
standard of this country out of danger, 
out of darkness, to the light and safety. 
And as they have looked, the noise has 
risen from all about as to what is neces- 
sary and what is wise, and we have had 
one man after another holding up the 
torch, as it were, and pointing the way. 



Off in the cjuiet was one man who re- 
fused to say a word, who refused to let 
anybody know where he stood, who in 
spite of all sorts ot temptations and all 
sorts of influences and all sorts of efforts 
held his ground and kept his peace. And 
yet that great convention, representing 
so man}^ of the American people, turned 
to that man as its standard bearer. 
Why? Simply because they had confi- 
dence in his character, because they re- 
alized that the man of true character 
could be counted on to carry that 
standard aright and to point the way 
and lead the hosts in the right direction, 
regardless of what his opinions might be. 
"Gentlemen, T believe that this is one 
of the finest testimonies we have seen as 
to the supreme value in the eyes of all 
thoughtful people of this day and gen- 
eration, as well as in the past, of char- 
acter, just plain character. And so I 
say our efforts will continue to be de- 
voted to that end. We may not always 
be successful, but we will work for that 
goal. And we want your support in 
that endeavor." 



CHANGES IN THE TEACHING FORCE 



Professor Walter C. Bronson, head of 
the English Department, and Professor 
Walter G. Everett of the Philosophy 
Department have returned from their 
sabbatical years to resume their work 
at the University. Six members of the 
Faculty are now taking their sabbatical 
years. Professor A. B. Johnson of the 
Department of Romance Languages and 
Literatures will teach at the University 
of Michigan. Professor R. G. D. Rich- 
ardson, head of the Mathematics De- 
partment, will engage in mathematical 
research, while J. M. Motley, associate 
professor of Economics, will study prob- 
lems of modern business in Baltimore. 
Professor William MacDonald, head of 
the Department of History, Professor A. 
K. Potter of the English Department, 



and Professor J. Ansel Brooks of the 
Engineering Division, will also be on 
their sabbatical years. 

Eugene E. Vann of Leland Stanford 
University has been appointed lecturer 
in Romance Languages and Latin-Amer- 
ican History for the coming year, to 
give two courses in Spanish, one in Port- 
uguese, and one in Latin-American His- 
tory, covering all the southern republics, 
and laying special emphasis on economic 
and social conditions in South America, 
trading routes, commercial opportun- 
ities, etc. Professor Lester B. Shippee 
has been appointed lecturer in History 
in place of Professor MacDonald. After 
graduating from Brown in 1903 and re- 
ceiving his A. M. in 1904, he taught in 
Peddie Institute, then in the Hope Street 



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High School, and later was professor in 
the State College of Washington, taking 
his Ph. D. at Brown last June. 

Other new appointments to the Fac- 
ulty for the 1916-17 year are: Robert 
W. Burgess, Ph. D."; Brown '08, In- 
structor in ^Mathematics ; Alvin H. Han- 
sen, of Wisconsin University, Instructor 
in Economics; Mervyn J. Bailey, Boston 
University, Instructor in German ; E. D. 
Elston, Instructor in Geology ; Warren 
N. Watson, Bates College, Assistant in 
Chemistry; Marion E. Bratcher, Ph. D., 
Lecturer in Biblical Literature; Earl F. 
Wood, Brown '16, Assistant in English; 
Egbert F. Tetley, Brown '16, Assistant 
in English ; Francis J. Brady, Brown 
'16, Assistant in Public Speaking; Fred- 
erick L. Ferris, Brown '16, Assistant in 
Philosophy; Henry F. Bain, of the Uni- 



versity of Tennessee, Assistant in Bot- 
any ; Ralph L. Blanchard, Brown '15, 
Assistant in Mathematics; and Samuel 
R. Damon, Brown '16, Evening Assist- 
ant in the Library. 

Hugh F. Cameron, Brown '09, has 
been appointed Assistant Registrar. 
Theodore B. Baylies, Brown '95, will be 
Secretary of the Brown Union for the 
coming year; and John B. Gibson, a 
graduate of Williams College and for the 
past two years Secretary of the Chris- 
tian Association there, is the new Sec- 
retary of the Brown Christian Associa- 
tion. 

H. D. Cady, Instructor in Shop 
Work, has resigned, and L. T. Bohl, In- 
structor in Civil Engineering, is now 
with the National Guard at the Mexican 
Border. 



WHERE BROWN'S PIONEER MISSIONARY 
WAS IMPRISONED 



(This account of the Judson Memorial in 
Burma was written for the Alumni ^Monthly by 
Dr. Adoniram B. Judson. '59. son of the mis- 
sionary, shortly before his death, which occurred 
last month in New York.) 

One of the deeply interesting incidents 
which marked the travels of the tourists 
who visited Burma at the time of the 
Judson Centennial in 1912-13 occurred 
at Ava, where Adoniram Judson, Brown 
1807, the first American foreign mis- 
sionary, suffered torture and vile im- 
prisonment. The tourists gathered on 
Dec. 22, 1912, in a temporary structure 
erected for the purpose of holding a 
memorial service, on the site of the old 
"Death Prison," which was Dr. Jud- 
son's dreary abode for eleven months, 
his ankles being bound and indelibly 
scarred by iron fetters, five pairs for two 
months, and three pairs for nine months, 
(five pairs weighing about fourteen 
pounds), while his wife and baby, for- 
lorn and friendless, were objects of 
curiosity and suspicion, and sometimes 
of gentle pity, on the streets of the 



gay capital of the Burmese Empire. 

To Dr. Judson and his wife was en- 
trusted the gospel message from Chris- 
tian America to the heathen popula- 
tion of Burma. Moreover they embodied 
the piety, refinement and scholarship of 
early New England. The alarming vic- 
issitudes however of daily life in jail and 
on the streets of a strange city were to 
them as nothing in view of the great 
command which had led them forth to 
conquer the heathen world for Christ. 

When this pathetic story had been re- 
cited to the tourists, or had been 
brought anew to their attention. Rev. 
Ernest Grigg, a zealous American mis- 
sionary, asked consideration for a plan 
which he had long cherished, to make 
the site of the old prison memorable. 
His mission station is at Sagaing, a 
near by town just across the Irawaddy 
river from Ava. He said that, six 
months before, he had secured as a gift 
from the Government a tract of land 
suitable for this purpose, where he had 



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hoped to see erected an impressive shaft 
of pure white native marble. The ten- 
der sentiments aroused by the repetition 
of so sad a story and the enthusiasm ex- 
cited by the surprising disclosure of Mr. 
Grigg's plan found immediate response 
in the generous promise of Rev. Dr. 
Henry M. Sanders of New York to meet 
the entire expense of the proposed mem- 
orial. Work was at once begun and is 



40 by 30 feet, the size of the prison, to 
21 by 14 feet. A smaller building will 
permit the iu production of certain archi- 
tectural features desirable in a landscape 
otherwise perhaps rather severe. If 
small it can be made of mason work and 
steel beams to last another century. The 
considerable sums thus reserved will be 
most wisely deposited to secure an an- 
nual income for the perpetual care of the 




THE JUDSON MEMORIAL BOULDER AT AVA IN 1916 

From left to right: Taw Hie, a Burraan Christian; Miss Jerome of Ohio, Rev. E. Grigg 
and Rev. and Mrs. L. H. Mosier 



receiving the necessary attention of Mr. 
Grigg and his amiable wife. The cut 
shows the memorial boulder and its ped- 
estal, (in place of the shaft at first pro- 
posed), the fence enclosing the grant of 
one acre and three-quarters of land, the 
fence posts being of reinforced concrete, 
and one of the two gates. In addition 
there will be an open zyat or rest house 
for travellers and for the religious in- 
struction of wayfarers, walks, shade trees 
and benches. A masonry-lined well, 
with appliances for obtaining water, was 
at first thought of, but it was decided to 
give up this attractive feature, and also 
to reduce the size of the rest house from 



place. It is thought that the entire 
cost will fall between 4000 and 5000 
rupees. 

The once important city of Ava is in 
ruins. The township, however, still has 
a population of about 50,000 souls. The 
cit}^ itself has given way to a collection 
of villages, and among these the site of 
the old prison has been cleared away, 
graded up and enclosed. Native squat- 
ters who cultivated this ground were per- 
suaded to give a quit-claim deed for 
their holdings by the offer of 50 rupees. 
Excavations for the bed of the pedestal 
brought to light a broken pair of rusty 
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Christian hero, and old-fashioned pipe 
bowls were found which recalled the fact 
that tobacco had been used to abate the 
mosquito plague in the heat of the 
crowded jail. Within the enclosure is a 
great tamarind tree with wide-spreading 
branches and a trunk !iO feet in circum- 
ference. It is said to be 500 years old. 
This tree and a venerable watch tower 
of masonry, 28 feet sc^uare and 63 feet 
in height, distant about 1000 feet from 
the stone, remain as silent witnesses of 
the tragic past. 

The massive boulder was brought from 
the (juarries when the rising flood of the 
Irrawaddy river swept around the mar- 
ble hills, and made its transportation on 
a raft practicable. From the river bank 
at Ava the great rock was hauled on an 
ingenious Burmese "stone-boat" by 
twenty buffaloes to its pedestal, sub- 
stantially built of masonry and cement. 
The stone itself is of snowy whiteness. It 
was selected with the utmost care from 
a large output of variegated marble, 
much of which is destined to be carved 
into images of Gaudama. It measures 
7 feet in length and is 6 feet wide at one 
end, and 4 feet wide at the other end. 
In thickness it varies from 2 to 3 feet. 



The face of the boulder carries, in Eng- 
lish and in Burmese, a brief and simple 
inscription as follows : 

In memory of Adoniram Judson, D. 
U., and Ann Haseltine Judson, his wife, 
missionaries of the American Baptist 
Union. This memorial is erected on the 
site of the Ava "Let-ma-yoon" prison, 
in which Dr. Judson, sustained by his 
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and by 
the devoted ministrations of his noble 
wife, suffered imprisonment from June, 
1824, to May, 1825, A. D. "These 
are they which came out of great tribu- 
lation and have washed their robes and 
have made them white in the blood of 
the Lamb." Rev. VII, 14. 

An alabaster tablet within the zyat 
will present the details of the erection of 
this simple and modest memorial to di- 
vinely sustained fortitude and endur- 
ance. Judson 's loyalty to his views of 
the truth, his responsiveness to the call 
of duty, his life of tragedy and romance, 
cannot be limited in ownership. The 
memory of such things, and the visible 
memorial here described, become the 
common heritage of all the disciples of 
Christ. 

Adoniram B. Jmlmn. '59 



OPENING EXERCISES 



The chapel service on Wednesday 
morning, Sept. 27,was the official opening 
of the year and the members of the four 
classes thronged Sayles Hall to listen to 
President Faunce's first address of the 
semester. Members of the Faculty at- 
tended, wearing academic costume. 

President Faunce spoke as follows : 

If I were to begin this morning with 
a verse out of the Old Book, it would be 
this: "Friend, wherefore art thou come.^" 
Wh}' are we here, and what is the pur- 
pose of it all? What is the object of 
the college and what should be the ob- 
ject of the student? 

Briefly we might say that the object 
of the college is to furnish a series of 



temptations upward. There are many 
temptations, men say, in the modern 
college and so there are. Wherever 
there is life there is the testing of life. 
There are no temptations in the ceme- 
tery, but the real life is full of them. 
But there are temptations upward as 
well as downward. The whole purpose 
of the Faculty is to furnish a never-end- 
ing series of temptations upward. They 
call the student into the laboratory. 
They give him the microscope or the 
balance or the test tube. They test his 
curiosity, they try to start him interro- 
gating nature, searching for truth. Then 
they take him into a class in English. 
They let him hear Shakespeare singing, 



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"Fear no more the heat of the sun, nor 
the furious winter's i-ages," or they read 
with Emerson on "Self Reliance. " Does 
he respond? Or does he prefer the five 
cent magazine still? They take him into 
a course in the history of art. They ex- 
plain to him the Corinthian Column, the 
grouping of the figures in the Sistine 
Madonna, the marvel of Corot's light 
behind the trees. Does he respond or 
does he prefer the colored supplement? 
They bring before him some great leader 
of spiritual progress ; they let him hear 
Bishop Brent or Dr. Grenfell. Does he 
respond and dedicate his life to the ser- 
vice of the world? All we can do is to 
furnish the temptation and make it as 
vivid and alluring as possible. 

The object of the individual student 
should be to find out what he can do and 
then do it with all his might. But how 
shall we discover what we can do? First 
I must know what other men have done 
— -that means history, biography, liter- 
sture. Then I must know how other 
men have done it — that means science, 
knowledge of the laws of nature and 
their application to human welfare. Then 
I must know why men have done it — 
that means the study of philosophy, art 
and religion. As thus we study the 
achievements of other men past and 
present, suddenly or gradually as the 
case may be, there comes to us the con- 
sciousness of what we ourselves can do 
and must do in the world. 

The college man without an object is 
like a man without a country. Weak- 
ness is hardly to be distinguished from 
wickedness. To follow the line of least 
resistance is always to go wrong. The 
valuable thing is always the hard thing. 
It is easy to get to the bottomless pit. 
Climbing is difiicult, but it leads to glo- 
rious summits, wide prospects, under- 
standing of the world. 



Dr. Faunce read a telegram received 
from the Brown men on the border, 
signed by Solon C. Kelly, Jr., '17, and 
Raymond Walsh, '17. The telegi-am 
said : 

"Greetings from Brown men stationed 
on border at the opening of the collegi- 
ate year. All regret inability to be 
present at this time, but hope that clear- 
ing of the present Mexican situation will 
permit speedy return. Best luck to 
Captain Farnum's team and expect vic- 
tory over Harvard." 

On behalf of the undergraduate body 
the following reply was immediately tel- 
egraphed : 

"Brown students at opening chapel 
service warmly appreciate greetings of 
their comrades on the border. We are 
proud of your response to the call of our 
country. Soon we expect you among us 
and read}' for the nation's service in 
peace or in war." 

After President Faunce 's address, Bar- 
ney D. Feinberg, the president of the 
Cammarian Club for the coming year, 
announced the annual inter-class rush on 
Lincoln Field for the next day, exhort- 
ing a large attendance of the two lower 
classes participating in the contest and 
urged fair play. The chapel exercises 
closed with the singing of "Alma Ma- 
ter,"" and the students went to their 
first recitations of the semester. 

Exercises at the Women's College 
opened with the first regular chapel ser- 
vice of the year. Dean King, in her 
welcoming address, spoke of the place of 
the college woman in national life, and 
especially of the need in the United 
States for intelligent patriotism. 

At the close of the chapel service, the 
Seniors, in cap and gown, sang their 
new songs to a large audience, com- 
posed of undergraduates, alumnae and 
friends. 



A BROWN LAW FIRM MOVES 
Messrs. Green, Hinckley & Allen moved their 
law office, Aug. 1, to the Turks Head Building, 
Providence. The firm contains the following 



Brown men: T. F. Green, "87; F. L. Hinckley, 
'91; A. M. Allen, '97; F. W. Tillinghast. '02; 
Abbott Phillips, '0-2; C. E. Wheeler, '09; H. P. 
Salisbury, '1*3. 



ANALYSIS OF VOTE FOR TRUSTEES 



The following analysis of the alumni 
vote for Trustees last June has been 
made by Prof. Clinton H. Currier and 
sent by him to the Alumni Monthly : 

RESIDENCE OF VOTERS 



Providence, 


517 


Florida, 


b 


Massachusetts, 


395 


Georgia, 


6 


New York, 


227 


Kansas, 


6 


R.I. (outside Prov.) 


154 


Oregon, 


6 


Pennsylvania, 


66 


Montana, 


4 


Connecticut, 


64 


North Dakota, 


4 


New Jersey, 


53 


Oklahoma, 


4 


Illinois, 


48 


South Carolina, 


4 


New Hampshire, 


42 


England. 


3 


Unknown, 


35 


Kentucky, 


3 


Ohio, 


33 


Louisiana, 


3 


California, 


29 


Mississippi, 


3 


Dist. of Columbia, 


26 


Alabama, 


2 


Maine, 


20 


Arizona, 


2 


Vermont, 


19 


Delaware, 


2 


Michigan, 


14 


Honolulu, 


2 


Colorado, 


13 


Idaho, 


2 


Minnesota, 


10 


Nebraska, 


2 


Missouri, 


10 


North Carolina, 




Washington, 


9 


Porto Rico, 




Wisconsin, 


8 


South Dakota, 




Canada, 


8 


Utah, 




Indiana, 


8 


West Virginia, 




Iowa, 


7 


Wyoming, 




Maryland, 


7 






Texas, 


7 




1907 


Virginia, 


7 







This year as last the oldest graduate 
to vote was John Hunt of the class of 
1842, a retired minister of Springfield, 
Ohio. 

There were 35 cases in which the vot- 
er's name was not given, 5 in which 
votes were sent in by non-graduates and 
7 in which the voter's name was type- 
written or put on with a rubber stamp. 
All these votes had to be rejected. The 
class of 1915 was not eligible to vote 
this year although many members sent 
in ballots. 

In spite of the fact that there were 
two Baptist vacancies, 12 voters did not 



vote for any of the Baptist candidates; 
203 voted for only one, and 6 voted for 
three. Similarly 16 did not vote for any 
of the candidates for the Congregational 
vacancy, while 40 voted for two. 



VOTE BY CLASSES 



1842, 
1850, 
1854, 
1855, 
1856, 
1857, 
1858, 
1859, 
I860, 
1861. 
1862, 
1863, 
1864, 
1865, 
1866, 
1867, 
1868, 
1869, 
1870, 
1871, 
1872, 
1873 
1874, 
1875, 
1876, 
1877, 
1878, 
1879, 
1880, 
1881, 
1882, 
1883, 
1884, 
1885, 
1886, 
1887, 
1888, 
1889, 
1890, 
1891, 
1892, 
1893, 
1894, 
1895, 
1896, 
1897. 





1898, 


36 


1 


1899, 


74 


1 


1900, 


63 


1 


1901, 


47 


3 


1902, 


63 


1 


1903, 


60 


1 


1904, 


55 


3 


1905, 


54 


2 


1906, 


70 


6 


1907, 


49 


3 


1908, 


47 


3 


1909, 


51 


5 


1910, 


44 


3 


1911, 


40 


3 


1912, 


45 


12 


1913, 


38 


1 


1914, 


36 


8 


WOMEN 




8 


1894, 


1 


10 


1895, 


2 


11 


1896, 


5 


12 


1897, 


9 


13 


1898, 


9 


11 


1899, 


12 


10 


1900, 


12 


24 


1901, 


7 


17 


1902, 


17 


19 


1903, 


9 


19 


1904, 


7 


28 


1905, 


7 


28 


1906, 


7 


19 


1907, 


12 


23 


1908, 


10 


21 


1909, 


13 


25 


1910, 


5 


25 


1911, 


9 


19 


1912, 


11 


14 


1913, 


13 


17 


1914. 


11 


22 


Honorary degree 




37 


holders. 


26 


28 


Advanced degree 




28 


holders. 


49 


48 


Defective ballots. 


40 


42 






61 




1907 


40 







BROWN RE:GULARS on BORDER 

The following Brown men in the regular ser- 
vice are on duty on the Mexican border: 

Captain Frank E. Hopkins, '98, F. A., is in 
command of Field Company D, Signal Corps at 
Camp Sergeant ShaflFer, Mission, Texas. 

Captain G. A. Taylor, '01, C. A. C. has been 



in command of the 103d Co., C. A. C, which is 
serving as infantry at Fabens, Texas, with the 
border patrol. 

1st Lieut. Robert Coker, ex-'09, 7th Infantry, 
who has just been promoted from Jnd lieutenant, 
3rd Infantry, is on duty with his regiment in 
El Paso. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

Published for the Graduates of Brown University 

by the Brown Alumni Magazine Co. 

Robert P. Brown, Treas., Providence, R. I. 



ADVISORY BOARD 

William W. Keen, '59, Philadelphia. 
Henry K. Porter, '60, Pittsburgh. 
Francis Lawton. '69, New York. 
Robert P. Brown, '71, Providence. 
William V. Kellen, '7^, Boston. 
William E. Foster, '7!5, Providence. 
Zechariah Chafee, '80, Providence. 
Gardner Colby, '87, New York. 
Joseph N. Ashton. '91, .Vndovcr. 
William R. Dorman, '92, New York. 
George A. Gaskill, '98, Worcester. 



Henry Robinson Palmer, '90, Editor. 

Harry Lyman Koopman, Associate Editor. 

EvEHAHD An'i.KTON, 1904., Business Manager. 

Business Office, 68 Waterman St. Tel. Angell 1159-W. 
Address all communications to the Brown Alumni 

Monthly, Brown University, Providence, R. I. 
Subscription, $1.00 a Year, Single Copies, 10 cents. 
There is no issue during August and September. 
Entered at the Providence post-office as second-class 

matter. 



Tlie numiKioni'iiJ of /lir iiitit/aiitif ii'lll not hold 
itself rt'Kpniisilili' far loni j'nihin' <;/' ddirery vihere 
the. xulmcrilicr Ikih ik>I jiniiiijtfli/ noflficd it of his 
change of address . 



OCTOBER, 1916 



The Brown Alumni Monthly cannot under- 
take to return manuscripts sent to it for publica- 
tion, unless they are accompanied by sufficient 
postage. 



BROWN SONS OF BROWN FA- 
THEHS 

It must be a dull eye that does not 
mark the increasing tendency of Brown 
graduates to send their sons to Alma 
Mater. For a good many years there 
was much talk to the contrary, but we 
believe the tide has set strongly in the 
right direction. 

Three members of the writer's own 
class are represented by sons in the en- 
tering class of 1920. The whole num- 
ber of Freshmen whose fathers went to 
Brown is nothing short of impressive. 
We hope next month to print the list 
entire. It is a good thing to see the 
younger generation coming along in this 
way, treading in the old familiar paths. 



It seems to us that a Brown man can 
"live his bright college days over again'' 
in no better fashion than by having a 
son at Brown. For four years he will 
have his interest in the university con- 
stantly rekindled. He cannot get out 
of touch with it if he tries. And we 
venture to say that he and the boy will 
find that they have far more interests in 
common, more points of contact, more 
mutual sympathy and understanding 
than if the son had gone to college some- 
where else. 

PRIDE IN BROWN 

There are some Brown men who talk 
about the college in a blase way. They 
do not think it is quite good form to 
praise it unreservedly. They take a cer- 
tain pleasure in enlarging upon its de- 
fects, in disparaging its achievements, in 
minimizing its advantages. 

But let something fortunate happen 
to the college and they are as eager as 
anyone else to share in the reflected ben- 
efit. If the football eleven beats Yale 
or the baseball nine defeats Harvard, or 
if a graduate is nominated by a great 
party for the presidency of the United 
States, or somebody makes a great gift 
to Alma Mater, or a million-dollar fund 
is successfully raised, or a handsome 
building is erected on the campus, or 
anything else occurs that causes every 
loyal son of Brown to rejoice — lo and 
behold, the scoffer is as much pleased 
as the next man. 

The best kind of loyalty is the kind 
that is firm and unyielding when things 
go wrong, that does not magnify trifles 
for the mere purpose of criticising, that 
does not lose all sense of proportion in 
judging — or misjudging — the University, 
that does not make a personal grievance 
— actual or fancied — the basis for a set- 
tled policy of nagging and complaint. 

And yet even the most carping grad- 
uate, who does not commit himself to 
open praise of Brown unless he is moved 
as by an earthquake, is a picturesque 
sort of person after all. His indifi'er- 



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ence or distaste is apt to be an affecta- 
tion or a habit. There are so many 
people who like to pose as cynics, who 
court — heaven knows why ! — a reputa- 
tion for eccentricity. But most cynicism 
is only skin deep, and it is always enter- 
taining to see the w-ay the scoffers come 
to the fi'ont on the Great Occasions and 
are as proud as the least cynical and 
most loyal of us to be, and to be known 
to be, graduates of Brown. 

GIFTS TO ALLIED INSTITUTIONS 

lender the will of Lyra Brown Nicker- 
son of Providence, who died after a 
brief illness at Narragansett Pier last 
summer, two Providence institutions 
closely allied to Brown University are 
munificently endowed. One of these is 
the Rhode Island School of Design, 
which is only a block distant from the 
University, interchanges coui'ses with it, 
is directed by L. Earle Rowe, '04, a 
Brown graduate, and has been the re- 
cipient of generous support frjm the 
Metcalf family, who are also a Brown 
family and have been liberal givers to 
the University. The School of Design 
will receive from the Nickerson beijuest 
a sum estimated at a million and a half. 
The School now owns most of the square 
on \vhich it is situated, having lately 
come into possession of the Carr prop- 
erty at the northeast corner, east of the 
original building and west from the 
University Club. It is one of the most 
useful educational institutions of south- 
ern New England, and Brown L^niversity 
rejoices in its new good fortune. 

The Providence Public Library also 
receives an estimated million and a half 
from the Nickerson will. Lender the 
charge of William E. Foster, Brown 
'7'3, the library has done a great work 
in the community. It has been con- 
stantly cramped for funds, however, so 
that this generous becjuest is most 
timely. We extend our congratulations 
to the library and its accomplished li- 
brarian. 

The habit of giving to public objects 



will be stimulated in Rhode Island by 
these splendid gifts. Miss Nickerson's 
useful life was cut off at a time when it 
seemed as if the greater portion of her 
years was still before her. The commu- 
nity deeply feels the tragedy of her 
early death but sees in her noble bene- 
factions her lasting and gracious mem- 
orial. 

COLLEGE IN EARNEST 

L^p to date it may be said with full 
justice that most American professors 
and many students have taken college 
work in earnest, but that some profes- 
sors and also many students have shown 
scant appreciation of its importance. At 
best it has been regarded as a matter of 
merely individual concern : the profes- 
sor's contribution to learning, the stu- 
dent's intellectual training and advance- 
ment. To be sure, voices have been 
raised, like that of Wendell Phillips in 
his "Scholar in a Republic," but these 
set forth the college man's opportunity 
and duty — still from the side of the in- 
dividual. Two years ago this attitude 
was suddenly rendered impossible, as 
truly as the wooden navies of the world 
were doomed by the battle between the 
Monitor and the Merrimac. The world 
now realizes in a new and larger sense 
that no man liveth unto himself 
alone. 

In August, 1914, a large part of Eu- 
rope, without purpose or at cross-pur- 
poses, found itself in a death-grapple 
with the organized intellect and will of 
the Central Powers. By a miracle it 
preserved its existence until it could or- 
ganize itself. It still is imperfectly or- 
ganized, but it is daily perfecting its 
system, and, by the time the war ends, it 
will be virtually at the Prussian pitch of 
regimentation — with all its resources, 
physical, intellectual and moral, mar- 
shalled in the service of the whole. In 
whatever way the w^ar ends, it will leave 
Europe, however depleted and impover- 
ished, keyed up to the highest note of 
efficiency, and ready to apply all its mo- 



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bilized energies to self-recovery and the 
conquests of peace. 

Meanwhile America is looking on as 
one in a dream, congratulating itself 
that it has kept out of the war, though, 
in fact, it has been involved in the con- 
flict from the beginning. It seems to 
have only the vaguest conception of 
what is going on abroad. It fails to re- 
alize that the shock of weapons is but 
the manifestation of a physical collision, 
and that after the struggle has been de- 
cided on the physical plane, the physical 
forces will continue their fight to a fin- 
ish for the mastery of the world's civili- 
zation. In that final phase of the duel 
of the nations, what is to be America's 
part? Will it rest content with the role 
of a passive prize to be fought for, or 
will it awake, open its eyes to what is 
actually happening, and align itself with 
its spiritual kindred in that Armageddon 
of world-ideals. 

To enter such a future, American col- 
leges are to-day preparing their students. 
Who can face the prospect carelessly.^ 
The fate of America depends upon its 
ability to organize its intelligence and 
purpose in time to meet the colossal 
demand already begun upon its national 
energies. Military and naval prepared- 
ness are but the husk and shell of the 
spiritual preparedness that is now im- 
perative. For this deeper preparedness 
the nation has the right to look with 
confidence, if anywhere, to the vision 
and devotion of its colleges. 

There is therefore at our seats of 
learning no more place for the dawdling, 
ease-loving, snap-hunting student than 
for the dilettant professor. There never 
was room for either, but they have been 
tolerated. Under the stress of the 
world's new era of efficiency that Amer- 
ica has already entered, whether we re- 
alize it or not, both must disappear, or, 
if any institution still tolerates them, it 
will speedily be supplanted by others 
more in accord with the spirit of the 
new day. We look back upon the glo- 
rious uprising of 1861 and the heroism 



of the college boys of that arduous time ; 
but our Civil War was Peace sitting un- 
der her olive compared to the days of 
nominal peace now confronting America. 
Every ounce, every fibre, of American 
manhood and womanhood will be taxed 
to the utmost if our country is to hold 
its place among the foremost nations of 
the world. Mere numbers and resources 
will not suffice; these will but leave 
America another China. Our colleges, 
like every other American institution, 
but above all our colleges, must keep 
steadily in view one end until it is ac- 
complished, that America shall become, 
not another stagnant and victimized 
China, but what it was called in the be- 
ginning, a New World. 



FOR A NEW GYMNASIUM 

The visiting committee for the de- 
partment of Physical Training at Brown 
LTniversity, in its annual report, sub- 
mitted to President Faunce, calls atten- 
tion to the fact that more men are sub- 
stituting out-of-door athletics for the 
formal required gymnasium work, fulfill- 
ing a recommendation made by the com- 
mittee in previous reports. 

The report says that 565 students are 
at present registered for gymnasium 
work as follows : Track, 83; gym. team, 
32 ; swimming, 3o ; wrestling, •i5 ; base- 
ball 14; total 210. Formal drill: Fresh- 
men, 183 ; Sophomores, 187 ; Juniors, 30; 
Seniors and specials, 15 ; total 355 ; grand 
total, 565. 

These figures show that about 37 per 
cent, of the students that are registered 
for required gymnasium work are taking 
the work in some form of athletics. 

The report calls attention to the fact 
that the tendency now in colleges is for 
more competitive athletics and games 
rather than gymnasium drill, and says 
that Brown could do more along this 
line if it had a larger gymnasium, where 
games such as basketball, squash, ten- 
nis, handball and track, could go on at 
the same time the formal classes were 
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in 1891, is reporte:! totally inadetjuate 
for the number of men who desire to 
use it. 

"If we are to keep pace with the other 
New England colleges of similar size as 
Brown," the report says, "we must have 
in addition to the present gymnasium 
and swimming pool another building 
devoted exclusively to recreation. By 
this, we mean a building in which the 
baseball squad can practice, the present 
cage being wholly inadequate and even 
dangerous. The same building should 
have accommodations for track practice, 
basketball, rooms for squash, tennis, 
handball, etc." 

As to basketball the report says : 
"The students are very anxious to re- 
establish basketball at Brown as an in- 
tercollegiate sport, and compete with 
other colleges. They have decided that 
this is undesirable with our present gym- 
nasium. Realizing this fact, we should 
do all we can to give them suitable ac- 
commodations. We believe that 75 to 
100 students would practice regularly in 
this branch of athletics if the opportun- 
ity were offered." 

Attention is called to the fact that 
the tennis courts have not been kept in 
good condition in past years, necessitat- 
ing the use of outside courts for intercol- 
legiate contests, where the student body 
is not privileged to attend the games. 
It is recommended that a court or courts 
be" provided for the exclusive use of the 
faculty. 

The chief form of intra-collegiate sport 
in the spring is inter-fraternity baseball. 



Some 250 or more students play a series 
of games during the spring months on 
Lincoln Field. The committee recom- 
mends, as soon as the board track is re- 
moved, that the surface of Lincoln 
Field be put into proper condition at 
once for baseball. The distance of An- 
drews Field from the campus makes this 
recommendation all the more imperative. 

The report calls attention to the fact 
that the schedules for the winter and 
spring sports include work for eight dif- 
ferent athletic teams and congratulates 
the Department of Physical Training for 
the all around growth and development 
of the work, which is now in full swing. 

The committee indorses the movement 
now well under way to further develop 
Andrews Field and the eflPorts that are 
now being made to give Brown a base- 
ball and football field independent of 
each other with permanent stands and 
suitable accommodations for handling 
crowds. 

The report, which is signed by Byron 
S. \A'atson, chairman of the committee, 
which includes George F. Weston, Frank- 
lin P. Capron, M. D., Edgar L. Mars- 
ton, William O. Blanding, Harry P. 
Cross, Charles S. Stedman and Leonard 
H. Cronkhite, concludes with a recom- 
mendation for more cooperation between 
the Faculty and the student and alumni 
athletic committees. To that end it 
suggests that a joint meeting of the Fac- 
ulty committee on student organization 
and the visiting committee of the Depart- 
ment of Athletics be held at least twice 
a year, once each semester. 



CALDWELL FUND 

Under the will of the late Sarah C. 
Durfee of Providence, the executors have 
paid Brown University S5000, to be 
known as the "Samuel Lunt Caldwell 
Memorial Fund," and the income 
to be used annually in the purchase of 
books. 

Dr. Caldwell, a graduate of Water- 
ville (now Colby) College, was a Trustee 



of Brown from 1859 to 1862, and a Fel- 
low from 1862 to 1889. He was secre- 
tary of the Corporation from 1875 to 
1889. 

After serving as professor of ecclesi- 
astical history in Newton Theological 
Institution he become President of Vas- 
sar College in 1867. His later years 
were spent in Providence, where he died 
in 1889. 



THE FOOTBALL OUTLOOK 



As the university football team has 
lost but four players by graduation and 
there seems to be an abundance of good 
material among the new men in college, 
the outlook for the season just now open- 
ing looks unusually good. 

The first day of practice, Sept. 19, 
brought out a squad of 30. Next day 
the number was increased to So. There 
is little doubt that the total will be 
nearly or quite 60 by the time these 
lines are read. 

Again Coach Robinson is confronted 
with the problem of discovering or devel- 
oping a first-string quarterback. Purdy, 
last year's quarter, needs practice in 
kicking. 

Among the new players, DeVitalis 
comes with an especially good record 
from Exeter Academy. Previous to his 
entrance at Exeter he was at Morris- 
town School, New Jersey. While at 
Exeter he played guard on the 'Varsity, 
and was in addition the best pitcher Ex- 
eter had had in years. DeVitalis has a 
fine build and is bound to make a name 
for himself in athletics while at college. 

Another promising newcomer is "Bill" 
Shaw from Worcester Academy, a big 
fellow who excelled while at Worcester in 
football, track and swimming. On the 
football team he played back and end, 
and he is showing great promise on the 
field at Brown. Shaw is also a good 
weight man in track, and an excellent 
swimmer and diver. Walsh, formerly at 
Dean Academy, is a fine prospect for 
end. He is a New Bedford boy, having 
been captain of the high school football 
team there for two years. Walsh fin- 
ished his prep school training at Dean 
Academy, playing halfback and end. 
Shea, a short and stocky cparterback, 
hails from Manchester, N. H., where he 
excelled in football. 

Herriott is another excellent player 
and came with a good reputation from 
Chicago. There is still another prospect 
in the person of Kowalski, a big 180- 



pound back, who has entered Brown from 
Notre Dame. On account of the one- 
year eligibility rule he will be unable to 
play this year, but with his build and 
experience he will certainly be heai'd 
from in the future. 

The list of players who reported for 
practice on Sept. 20 is as follows : Capt. 
Farnum, Sprague. J. P. Murphy, Wade, 
Pollard, Teets, Jemail, Marshall, Bow- 
man, Moyle, Nichols, Hillhouse, Weeks, 
Lathrop, Brace, Abbott, E. Murphy, 
Coleman, Huggins, Carder, Downey. 
Crowther, Spagna, Fuller, Sinclair, Shu- 
pert, Armstrong, Rogers, Zelcer, Brooks, 
Shea, Shaw, Walsh, Herriott, Kowalski 
and DeVitalis. 

DAILY PRACTICE 

The third day of practice added three 
candidates to the squad, making 41 in 
all who had appeared on the field thus 
far. Two of the new men are back- 
fielders — Tower and Woodman; Lan- 
pher is a lineman. Tower comes from 
Cranston High and is looking for the 
fullback position. Woodman is from 
Dean Academy, where he was left half- 
back and baseball pitcher. Lanpher, a 
Sophomore, did not play football last 
year but was on the swimming team. 

Coach Robinson picked a temporary 
first team with Shupert quarter; DeVi- 
talis fullback, and Brooks and Pollard 
halfbacks. In the line Weeks and Zel- 
cer ends ; Fuller and Marshall tackles ; 
Nichols and Teets guards, and Coleman 
at centre. Captain Farnum remained 
out of the lineup to follow the move- 
ments of the squad and to size up the 
work. 

This was in the morning. In the 
afternoon three teams were organized 
with Robinson, Whittemore and Hahn 
in charge. The first eleven was the 
same as in the morning with a few ex- 
ceptions. Jemail of last year's team 
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Captain Farnum resumed his place at 
tackle and Bowman replaced Coleman at 
centre. 

On the other s(juads Brace and Tower 
were used as fullbacks, with Brooks, 
Armstrong, E. Murphy and Woodman 
as halves and Herriott and Crowther at 
quarter. 

The coaches paid much attention to 
Nichols, the promising guard, and De- 
Vitalis, the back from Exeter. Nichols 
has a natural build for a lineman and 
looks good on account of the way he 
takes to the position. DeVitalis also 
shows promise, having the weight and 
speed essential to a good back. 

On the fourth morning of practice 
Ray Ward and J. R. Murphy of last 
year's team made their appearance, to- 
gether with two new men, Horan and 
O'Rourke. Horan comes from Algonia, 
Iowa, and O'Rourke from Providence 
Classical High, and both look promising. 
In the afternoon Ralph Gordon, the star 
punter, came out. He will greatly as- 
sist in the coaching. The afternoon 
squad numbered 42. 

The fifth day of practice, Sept. 22, 
brought out Purdy and Conro}' of last 
year's squad for the first time. Purdy 's 
booting of the ball avei-aged 45 yards. 
It looks as if he would be much used in 
the kicking department this season. 
Conroy was a substitute quarter last 
year, but a leg injury interfered with 
his game. Bitting, a new man, who has 
had experience in the line at Soldan 
High School, St. Louis, also joined the 
squad, bringing its total to 48 men. All 
the four coaches, Robinson, Whitte- 
more, Sprackling and Hahn, were on 
hand at the field. Two teams were 
formed and a lively scrimmage was held. 
Up to Sept. 29, 54 men had come out. 
Curtis, '07, is assisting in the coaching. 

BROWN 18, R. I. STATE 
Brown opened the season at Andrews 



Field on Saturday, Sept. 30, with an 18- 
victor}' over Rhode Island State Col- 
lege. Every year the Kingstonians come 
up to town with hopes of victory in this 
opening game and every year they go 
back disappointed. They are sturdy 
and sportsmanlike players however. 

The game this year was marked by 
long runs and good line plunging. Pen- 
alties were frequent. 

Brown made 14 first downs and Rhode 
Island 4. The visitors were much 
stronger than last year but never men- 
aced the Brown goal. Some of Brown's 
new men — Armstrong, Brooks, deVitalis, 
Conroy, E. M. Murphy, "Charlie" Hug- 
gins and others — gave a good account of 
themselves. 'J he summary: 

JiliOWX K. I. STATK 

Zelcer, 1. e r. e., Dunham 

Ward, I. t r. t.. Dodge 

Teets. 1. g r. g. , Molloy 

Sprague, c c. , Gildea 

Wade, r. g 1. t., Bartel 

Farnum. r. t 1. t., Mcintosh 

Weeks, r. e 1. e., O'Bjrne 

Purd3% n. b q. b.. O'Brien 

Armstrong, 1. h. b r. h. b., Murphj' 

Jeraail. r. h. b 1. h. b., Knot 

DeVitaHs. f. b f. b.. LeBoeuf 

Substitutions: For Brown. Brooks for Jemail, 
Pollard for Armstrong. Jemail for Brooks, La- 
throp for Teets, Nichols for Wade, M. S. P. 
Williams for Ward. Ward for Zelcer, Brooks for 
Jemail, Armstrong for Pollard, Bowman for 
Sprague, J. P. Murphy for Purdv. Carder for 
Weeks, Spagna for M. S. P. Williams. Abbott 
for Lathrop, Conroy for Armstrong, E. M. Mur- 
phy for Brooks, Huggins for J. P. Murphy. 
For R. I. State, Hart for Dunham, Kimball for 
Mcintosh, O'Brien for O'Byrne. 

Time, 12 minute quarters. Referee, Burgin 
of Princeton. Umpire, Noble of Amherst. Head 
linesman, Lowe of Dartmouth. Score, Brown 
18, R. I. State 0. Touchdowns, Jemail "2, De- 
Vitalis. Attendance 1500. 

THE SCHEDULE 

Sept. 30, Rhode Island at Providence, 18-0 

Oct. 7, Trinity at Providence. 

Oct. 11, Amherst at Providence. 

Oct. 21, Williams at Williamstown. 

Oct. 28, Rutgers at Providence. 

Nov. 4, Vermont at Providence. 

Nov. 11, Yale at New Haven. 

Nov. 18, Harvard at Cambridge. 

Nov. .SO, Colgate at Providence. 



TOPICS OF THE MONTH 



THE ENTERING CLASS 

As the Monthly goes to press, in the 
last days of September, the size of the 
Freshman class is uncertain. The in- 
dications point to about 250, which is 
above the average of recent years though 
not as large as the record total of a year 
ago, when 256 Freshmen were enrolled. 
These figures are for the Main College 
only. The Women's College has a 
record entering class of over 80, making 
a total of about 830. 

Speaking of the "Main College" sug- 
gests the growing difficulty of describing 
this major portion of the University in a 
single compact term. It used to be the 
equivalent of the University as a whole. 
But nowadays we have the Graduate De- 
partment, the Main (or shall we say 
Men's?) College, and the Women's 
College, 

The University Catalogue avoids the 
difficulty by using the phrase "undergrad- 
uate men." This is good as far as it 
goes, but to what branch or department 
of the University do they belong.^ Can 
anybody answer the question? 

It might be feasible to call the Men's 
Department Brown College, after the 
analogy of the undergraduate academic 
department at Yale. Some day, we sup- 
pose, there will be a new name for the 
Women's College. Perhaps it will be 
called Pembroke College; perhaps it will 
be named after some benefactor; and 
then again perhaps the present rather 
undistinctive name will be continued in- 
definitely. 

The Monthly has long hoped to see 
the Graduate Department ei-ected into a 
Graduate College. What an opportu- 
nity there is here for a liberal endow- 
ment for graduate work ! 

The number of graduate students is 
steadily increasing. As Professor Fow- 
ler pointed out some years ago in the 
Alumni Monthly, our title to the name 
of University rests largely on the posses- 
sion of our Graduate Department. 



MAINE BROWN CLUB 

Portland is the headcjuarters of the 
Brown Club in Maine, and the visit of 
Charles E. Hughes to that city, on the 
evening of September 7, was made the 
occasion of whole-hearted Brown greet- 
ings to the representative of the class 
of '81. In fact the preparation of the 
club for a part in the Hughes welcome 
resulted in the formation of a college 
section in the street parade, so enthusi- 
astic were the college men of the city in 
their desire to have a share in the wel- 
come. 

Frederick H. Gabbi, '02, president of 
the Maine Brown Club, was made the 
marshal of the college section, in which 
eighteen universities and colleges were 
represented by about four hundred men. 
Brown was given the post of honor in 
the college section. Prominent at the 
head of the section was a large banner 
with a portrait of Hughes over the in- 
scription, "Hello, Charlie." Burrage, 
'61, and Anthony, '83, followed, bear- 
ing between them a long streamer on 
which was inscribed BROWN. Then 
came the Brown men in fours, in white 
hats, black coats and white trousers. 

How the college cheers responded on 
the march, Burgess leading the Brown 
men, and the other colleges following 
with their characteristic calls. With 
five bands in the procession, and an 
abundance of red lights, the political 
clubs bearing torches, the streets were 
ablaze. The new City Hall was packed, 
and Mr. Hughes addressed a crowd of two 
thousand people from the steps at the 
entrance of the hall when he reached the 
building. 

The oldest Brown alumnus present was 
Major Charles H. Boyd, class of 1854. 
Contributed 

SOPHOMORE POSTERS 

The Journal of September 26 said : 
J. Harold was a Brown Freshman, 
self-conscious in all his newly registered 



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glory last night. He went to his newly 
furnished room after an evening of com- 
panionship with newh^ found friends and 
with a feeling that all this newness was 
pleasant. He was very happy, and his 
dreams were bright with the promise of 
a new and wonderful day and days to 
come. Everybody had been most kind 
and attentive to him, and he glowed 
with the warmth of the good fellow- 
ship. 

What follows is an imaginative story 
based on fact. J. Harold woke up this 
morning. He opened his door and 
started back. A "warning" followed by 
two exclamation points was pasted on his 
door with the words "annihilated" and 
"1919" close below. Between the lines 
he found himself classed in the genus 
"kiddie of 1920" in small type, with 



something of milk bottles and nursery 
necessities further along. 

This was disconcerting before break- 
fast. Going outside, he came upon an- 
other placard pasted on the fence near his 
dormitory. It caused him to stop sud- 
denly for in large letters it said: "Atten- 
tion." Reluctantly he i)aused to read, 
and there were more insults of a hyper- 
bolic nature. He was here a "supine 
pygmie with a habitat in a perambulator, 
to which he must retire in order to avoid 
all strife and turmoil with the stalwart, 
illustrious, unparalleled class of 1919." 

Seeing these signs and others of a like 
nature besetting his path on all sides, 
it gradually dawned on J. Harold that 
there were Sophomores in the world and 
that they had been abroad during the 
night. 



THE LETTER BOX 



BROWN BASEBALL IX FRENCH 
Editor Brozcn Alumni Montlily: 

Some of your readers may find amuse- 
ment in the enclosed account of a Brown 
baseball game, which appeared in the 
Dartmouth Summer Session Weekly. It 
was written, I believe, by a student of 
the Session for the French column of the 
paper. 

Yours truly. 

H. W. Hastings 
August 10 

Une Partie de Baseball Entre Dart- 
mouth ET Brown 

L'abilite de Brown d'inspirer la peur 
et la temerite dans les equipes de baseball 
de Dartmouth a trouve une blessure mor- 
telle sur le Campus Samedi apres-midi. 

Une tradition ancienne et veneree qui 
mangea de la poussiere Samedi fut celle 
de presenter la partie a Brown sur un 
grand plat en argent pendant le premier 
tour et de jouer les huit autres comme 
une simple formalite. On ofFrit quatre 



courses aux visiteurs sur le susdit grand 
plat mais Tequipe de la maison in- 
augura une coutume nouvelle en s'esti- 
mant encore de la partie. Les Browniens, 
stupefaits de ce changement inattendu 
eurent la plaisir de voir precipiter un 
lanceur de la butte et la partie arrachee 
de leurs griffes avides. Deux etaient 
morts lorsque Doyle, qui occupait la 
butte a ce moment — la, commenga a 
montrer des tendances altruistes. II 
laissa deux hommes se promener avant 
de trouver I'assiette. Tous deux firent 
le tour des sacs. Ormsby fit une coche 
a Johnston, que finit le circuit lui-meme 
a cause d'un sac vole et d'une balle jetee 
d'une maniere farouche. Brumby rem- 
pla^-a Doyle sur la butte. Osborn rouvrit 
la seance pour les Verts mais se perdit 
lorsque Murphy s'eventa. Murray craqua 
encore un sac double au quatrieme et 
vola au troisieme. 

L'equipe de sauvetage de Dartmouth 
se mit a I'attaque. Reese frappa un 
seul coup au-dessus du premier sac. 
Murray et Johnston se consulterent a 



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propos de la mouche de Murphy derriere 
st deciderent de la laisser tomber sans la 
deranger. Cet etire de Flanders debou- 
cha un lance sauvage apres quoi les deux 
coureurs de bases s'en sont retournes 
che/ eux en voiture. On mit la partie 
sur la glace au cinquieme lorscjue Eske- 
line fit un coup seul pres de Davidson 



sans personne de mort. Le mentor de 
Brown, estimant que son lanceur en avait 
assez I'envoya a la douche. On accueillit 
le nouveau venu avec un coup de coussin. 
Feinberg laissa couler la balle jusqu 'au 
sein da la foule et Perkins ebrecha le 
pentagone. 

Contributed by H. D. Blanpied 



BRUNONIANS FAR AND NEAR 

Faculty 



Professor Camillo von Klenze, head of the Ue- 
partment of Germanic Languages and Litera- 
tures, has resigned to accept a position with the 
College of the City of New York, and also to 
engage in work for the German-American Alli- 
ance, with headquarters in New York city. 
Professor von Klenze has been head of the Ger- 
manic language department at Brown for ten 
years, and in 1913 was elected Vice President of 
the Modern Language Association of America. 
He was born in Freiberg, Switzerland, in 186,5 
and came to America in 1879. He received an 
A. B. from Harvard in 1886 and spent four 
years studying in Berlin and Marburg, Ger- 
many, obtaining the degree of Ph. D. in 1890 
from the University of Marburg. He had been 
professor of languages at Cornell L'niversity and 
the University of Chicago before coming to 
Brown in 1906. 

Henry Demees Cady. who has been an in- 
structor in shop practice at Brown since 1902, 
has been placed in charge of the machine shop of 
the Bushwick High School, 400 Irving av., 
Brooklyn. N. Y. 



Alumni 

180T 
The birthplace of Adoniram Judson is one of 
the few historic places left to recall the begin- 
nings of American foreign missions. It is nearly 
opposite Bell Rock Park in Maiden, and has an 
interesting history aside from its missionary as- 
sociations. The house was built by the Congre- 
gational church in Maiden as a residence for 
Rev. William Emerson, father of Ralph Waldo 
Emerson, when he was pastor of that church, 
and was afterward occupied by the Rev. Adoni- 
ram Judson, senior, father of the missionary, 
who was born while his father was pastor of the 
Maiden Congregational church. In the same 
room in this old house were later born the twin 
brothers Cyrus and Darius Cobb, scientist and 
artist. A few years ago the house was oflFered 
for sale that the large lot might be cut up for 
modern dwellings, but the members of the Bap- 
tist church in Maiden and others gathered sub- 
scriptions and bought the house, the title of 
which now rests in the Maiden Baptist church. 
The house has been put in good condition. Part 



is preserved as at the time of the birth of the 
great missionary, and used as a missionary mu- 
seum. The rest of the house is used as a resi- 
dence for Baptist missionaries while on furlough 
in America. 

1819 

The Michigan Alumnus for August devotes 16 
pages to a report of the Angell exercises held 
June \>H. It gives in full the Memorial Address 
by President Hutchins and the Address in Be- 
half of the Alumni by John M. Zane. Shortly 
after these exercises the proposed Union build- 
ing was dedicated to Dr. Angell. 

1851 
Judge Frederick Mott died at Des Moines, 
Iowa, July 2, 1916, aged 88 years. The Winter- 
set, Iowa, Reporter says: Three men. about the 
same age. were more nearly identified with the 
first settlement and early development of Win- 
terset and Madison county than any others, H. 
J. B. Cummings, Frederick Mott and J. S. Go- 
shorn. They were nearly the same age, came to 
the county about the same time, and had the 
same ideals and ambitions; they worked to- 
gether in directing the educational, moral and 
commercial interests of the community; they 
were together when the Republican party was 
organized, and all three were comrades in the 
Civil War. Cummings and Goshorn were brother 
officers in Co. F. Fourth la., infantry, the for- 
mer Captain and the other Lieutenant. Later 
on Mott entered the service with Cummings in 
the 39th Iowa, of which the latter was Colonel 
and the former Quartermaster. In a conversa- 
tion with one of these three comrades a few 
years ago, he spoke feelingly of their comrade- 
ship and dwelt on the relation of various inci- 
dents showing how intimately their lives had 
been interwoven. This one still lives; Cum- 
mings passed away seven years ago, and last 
Sunday the other one passed to his reward. 
Judge Mott led a very active and useful life. 
He entered upon the practice of law in 1857 im- 
mediately after coming to Winterset, having 
been admitted to the bar before coming west; he 
was also engaged in the banking business in 
Winterset, and served two terms as County At- 
torney; he served two ternns as Judge of what 
was then the Fifth Judicial District; he was pro- 
fessor of pleading and practice in the law de- 
partment of the State University, and afterward 
President of Des Moines College. During the 
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seemed to greatly enjoy himself, at his beautiful 
home just south of the library. At this home 
was celebrated his eightieth anniversary, in 
which his comrades of theG. A. R. participated. 
His wife having died and his children becoming 
scattered, a few years ago he made his home 
with his yoimger children in Des Moines, al- 
though he frequently visited his friends in Win- 
terset. His four sons still remain, two in Des 
Moines, one in Wyoming and one In California. 
Judge Mott was from youth to old age a devout 
antl loyal Baptist. For more than half a cen- 
tury he was in truth a pillar of the Baptist 
church at Winterset, and his departure from the 
city would have been a very serious loss to that 
denomination had not younger and equally loyal 
men come to the city to take his place, Mr. 
Mott was a comparatively healthy man till a 
few months ago, when he became severely af- 
flicted and after a few weeks of suffering de- 
parted this life last Sunday. 
1H5() 
Dr. William Watson Waterman, ex-'o(j, A. 
M., honorary, 1870, died at his home in Tatin- 
ton, Feb. 16 after a month's illness. He was 
burn in Dighton. Mass., Dec 4, 1831, the son of 
Asa and Hannah Babbitt (Atwood) Waterman. 
He was prepared for college at Phillips Acad- 
emy, Andover, Mass., and Kimball Union Acad- 
emy, Meriden, X. H.. where he was graduated 
in 185.2. He entered Brown in September, 185^2, 
but left college during his third year to engage 
in teaching and the study of medicine. He at- 
tended lectures in the Medical college, Wood- 
stock, Vt., and the medical department of the 
University of the City of New York, receiving 
the degree of M. D." from the latter in 1856. 
He was principal of the Porapey, N, Y., Acad- 
emy, and temporary professor of chemistry in 
the Metropolitan Medical College, New York 
city, 1856-7. He then taught in Tremont, 111., 
until April. 1861, when he became principal of 
the High school and Superintendent of schools 
at Sparta, Wis., which position he held until 
elected principal of the Normal school at Viro- 
(lua. Wis. In 1865 he was elected principal of 
the high school and superintendent of schools at 
Virginia City, Nev., which position he filled 
until he came to Taunton in January, 1869, to 
serve as sub-master in the high school. The 
following June he was elected first superintend- 
ent of schools at Clinton, Mass. He retired in 
1889 from school work on account of impaired 
eyesight. Shortly after locating in Taunton he 
arranged a plan for an annual convention of the 
school committees and superintendents of Bris- 
tol county, which was kept in successful opera- 
tion and well attended until his removal from 
the city. In 1890 he invited the teachers of 
New Bedford, Fall River and Attleboro to at- 
tend a regular meeting which he had called for 
Taunton teachers, and prepared measures which 
at this meeting resulted in the organization of 
the Bristol County Teachers' Association. He 
began and urgently advocated the movement 
which resulted in a union truant school for 
Bristol. Plymouth and Norfolk counties. While 
at Clinton he held a conference with the school 
boards of Worcester county, which resulted in 
the establishment of the Worcester county tru- 



ant school, and he was subsequently mentioned 
as "the father" of that school. He was presi- 
dent of the New England Association of School 
Superintendents, 1875, and secretary of the 
same, 1878 and 1874.; vice-president of Massa- 
chusetts Teachers' association, 1879 91; vice 
president of American Institute of Instruction, 
18H8-94. He was twice elected to represent his 
district in the Massachusetts legislature, serving 
1896 and 1897; he was a member of the eom- 
mittee on education and also of the committee 
on drainage, and he was the acknowledged 
leader on matters pertaining to education. He 
was one of the original members of the Taunton 
park commission and was actively interested in 
its work during his eleven years of service, 1894- 
1905. He was deeply interested in the Old Col- 
ony Historical society, having been a director or 
vice president since 1897. He was a member of 
the North Bristol Congregational club for about 
thirty years, holding different offices, including 
that of president. He united with the Congre- 
gational church in Attleboro, Mass., in 1847, at 
the age of 16 years. While in Nevada, where 
there was no Congregational church, he joined 
with the Presbyterians and soon became one of 
the ruling elders of their denomination; he there 
organized and supervised a large Sunday school. 
In Taunton he united with the Winslow Congre- 
gational church, Nov. 6, 1870. He was an ac- 
tive member of the church standing committee 
for many years, and was for several years chair- 
man of the parish standing committee. He be- 
came teacher of an adult Bible class in the Wins- 
low Sunday school on his return from Clinton in 
1893 — rarely being absent until last year. He 
was the author of three volumes of Taunton 
School Reports, also of a Manual of Studies and 
Methods for Primary and Grammar Schools, 
1885. He married Hope T. Savery, daughter of 
Dr, Savery of Attleboro, Dec. 31, 1856, and they 
hnd three children, all of whom died young; she 
died Oct. 31, 1868. He married Mary Briggs 
Bradford, daughter of Capt. David Bradford, of 
Plymouth, July 32, 1873, and she died Aug. 20, 
1909. They had one child Miss Mary Waterman, 
who lives at 1 White st., Taunton. 
1859 
Dr. Adoniram Brown Judson, son of the fa- 
mous Baptist missionary, a well-known New 
York physician for almost half a century, and a 
frequent contributor to the Alumni Monthly, 
died Sept. 21, 191(), at his home, 53 Washington 
square. New York city, in his eightieth year. 
He was born in Maulmain, Burma, and was 
graduated from Brown University in 1859. He 
received his medical diploma at Jefferson Med- 
ical College, Philadelphia, in 1865, and at the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia 
University, in 1868. While he was studying 
medicine at Jefferson College, the civil war 
started and he was appointed Assistant Surgeon 
in the United States Navy on July 1, 1861. pro- 
moted to Surgeon Dec. ^2(i, 1866, and resigned 
from the service on May 11, 1868. After ob- 
taining his degree in the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons the same year. Dr. Judson started in 
practice in New York and made a special study 
of orthopaedic surgery. He was Inspector of the 
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pension examining snrgeon 1877-84, medical ex- 
aminer New York State Civil Service Commis- 
sion 1901-09, and was the author of several treat- 
ises on surgery. Dr. Judson was President of 
the American Orthopaedic Association 1891, 
member American Medical Association. Fellow 
of the American College of Surgeons. American 
Academy of Medicine, and a member of Lafay- 
ette Post, G. A. R. Dr. Judson was a widower 
and had no children. 

1860 

Benjamin Francis Pabodie was killed by a 
street car in Montclair, N. J., July 26, 1916. 
He was in his 79th year. Mr. Pabodie was cross- 
ing the street at 1.30 o'clock in the afternoon 
and stepped directly in front of the car. It is 
thought he was instantly killed. He was born 
in Providence on December 5, 1837, the son of 
Benjamin Gladding and Frances H. (Blackman) 
Pabodie. He received his early education in 
the schools of this city and at Brown University, 
from which he was graduated in 1860 with the 
degree of A. B. His father at that time was a 
wealthy foundryman, and Mr. Pabodie went 
into business with him. In 1862 he enlisted in 
the Tenth Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers, 
was mustered in as a Corporal in Company H 
on May "26, detached for special service on June 
30, under orders from headquarters, and was 
mustered out with the regiment on Sept. 1. 
This was one of the regiments which was raised 
in less than 24 hours for the defence of Washing- 
ton, and the most of its term was spent in the 
forts surrounding that city. Although it was 
never under fire, it did valuable service in re- 
leasing veteran troops for the front. After his 
return from the war Mr. Pabodie continued in 
the foundry business until the loss of the family 
wealth caused him to leave the city and go to 
Montclair, where he had been since engaged as 
public accountant While in Providence he was 
a member ot the school committee for five years 
and a vestryman of All Saints Church. He was 
a vestryman of St. John's Church at Montclair. 
Mr. Pabodie's wife and only daughter died a 
few years ago and he had lived alone in Mont- 
clair. 

1867 

One of the latest activities of Dr. Elmer L. 
Corthell was as chairman of the National Amer- 
icanization Committee in considering the ques- 
tion of the physical welfare of immigrants and 
their attitude toward America. He was able as 
president of the American Institute of Consult- 
ing Engineers and of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers to coordinate the work of these 
various bodies in the interest of Americanization 
and genuine national preparedness. 

Isban Hess died at his home in South Durham, 
N. Y., Aug. 3. While alone in his barn he was 
gored to death by a bull that suddenly devel- 
oped hostility toward its owner. He lived only 
a few minutes. He was for thirty-five years a 
prominent lawyer in Albany. He was a personal 
friend of President Cleveland, and was appointed 
by him internal revenue collector. In later years 
he lived a retired life, investing largely in fancy 
stock, which he kept on his farm in South Dur- 
ham. He never married, and leaves no imme- 



diate relatives. In his will one or two bequests 
are made to distant relatives and the remainder 
of the estate is given to Brown University to 
constitute the John Hess Memorial Fund, named 
after the testator's father. The proceeds of this 
fimd are to be used annually in assisting stu- 
dents of slender means to pay for a college edu- 
cation. The value of the estate is as yet un- 
known but has been estimated to be about one 
hundred thousand dollars. 
1869 
Osgood H. Shepard died Aug. 26, at his resi- 
dence at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. He was born 
in Albany, Oct. 26, 1848, the eldest son of 
Stephen Osgood and Lucinda Harris Shepard. 
His father was born in Salem. Mass., and died 
in Albany, March 2, 1897. His mother was a 
daughter of Frederick W. Harris of Preble, 
Cortland Co., New York. He obtained his 
early education at the Albany Academy, after 
which he entered Brown. Among his associates 
at college were United States Senator Nathan F. 
Dixon, E. Benjamin Andrews, and Joseph B. 
Bishop, Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Com- 
mission. Entering the Albany Law School, he 
graduated in 1871. and was admitted to the bar 
of New York State the same year. He entered 
his father's law office and formed a partnership 
with the late George L. Stedman, which con- 
tinued until January 1, 1855, his father being 
associated with the firm for many years as 
counsel. He continued the practice of law in 
Albany till 1900, when he moved to Ballston Spa, 
N. Y., living with his brother John Rathbone 
Shepard, who died there January 21, 1915, when 
he moved to Saratoga Springs. He had a high 
reputation for integrity. 

1870 
Adoniram Judson Cushing died of heart trou- 
ble, Aug. 11, at his home in Providence. He 
was born in North Attleboro, Feb. 11, 1849, the 
son of Alpheus Nelson and Charlotte Everett 
(Foster) Cushing. His ancestors settled in Hing- 
ham. Mass., in early colonial days. For many 
years his father conducted a manufacturing jew- 
elry business in North Attleboro. He attended 
the public schools of his native town and the 
Connecticut Literary Institution at Suffield, 
Conn. He prepared for college at the Univer- 
sity Grammar School. He studied law in the 
office of Thurston & Ripley and was admitted to 
tha bar May 30. 1872. On Nov. 27, 1896, he was 
admitted to practice in the Federal courts. After 
passing his examination he formed an association 
with John Turner; later he practiced law inde- 
pendently. He served in the Common Council 
of Providence, 1889-1901, and was elected to a 
seat in the Board of Aldermen, serving there un- 
til 1904. In 1903, he was president of the board. 
On May 17, 1880, he married Miss Mary E. 
Becker of Providence, by whom he is survived. 
He also leaves one daughter, Miss Alice May 
Cushing, '02. He was a brother of the late Rev. 
Josiah Nelson Cushing, "62. He was a Past 
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Rhode 
Island, I. G. O. F., and for four years was rep- 
resentative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the 
order. He was a member of Redwood Lodge of 
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ciety. For several years he held the office of 
Judge Advocate General in the National Guard 
of Rhode Island with the rank of Colonel. 
1873 

Joseph Kennard Wilson retired, Aug. 1, from 
the editorship of Zion's Advocate, of which he 
had been editor since Jan. 1, 1905. 

By the will of the late Miss Lyra B. Nickerson 
of Providence, the Public Library will receive a 
bequest of >;l,5()(»,(>0(). All who realize the 
splendid work that William E. Foster has done 
for that institution during the last thirty-eight 
years will rejoice that his means to serve the 
public are at last to be brought into some pro- 
portion to his aims and his capacity. 
1875 

Justice Reuben E. Walker of the New Hamp- 
shire Supreme Court, Brown, '75, received the 
degree of LL. D., at Dartmouth in June. He 
has been on the supreme bench over fifteen 
years. 

1876 

Rev. George Bullen, D. D., '76, died at his 
home in Newton Centre, Mass., Aug. 21. He 
was born in New Sharon, Me., Nov. 8, lH'.',[i, the 
son of Joseph and Frances Green (Boardman) 
Bullen. He was graduated from Colby College 
in 1858. He then gave two years to teaching. 
He was graduated from Newton Theological 
Seminary in 1858. He spent one year of study 
in Germany, at Goettingen, and a part of the 
time under Dr. Tholuck at Halle. His first pas- 
torate was at Skowhegan, Me., 1860-^2. For 
more than a year he was a chaplain in the army 
during the Civil War. He had pastorates in 
South Reading, Mass., Pawtucket. New London, 
N. H.. and Hingham, Mass. He also served 
for many months as stated supply in Allston and 
South Boston. His pastorate in Pawtucket 
lasted 1868-91. He was president of the Rhode 
Island Baptist State Convention, 1875-91. He 
was a professor in the Newton Theological Insti- 
tution, 1891-7. During five years of this pe- 
riod he was also corresponding secretary of the 
Northern Baptist Education Society. He was a 
member for many years of the Executive Com- 
mittee of the Missionary Union, and a trustee of 
Colby College and Newton Theological Institu- 
tion. He married, March 28, 1860, Maria Jane 
Ripley. He was the father of Dana Ripley Bul- 
len, '86, Joseph Edmund Bullen. '90, and Walter 
Boardman Bullen, '99. 

1880 

Henry Douglas Lane, who was a student at 
Brown, 1876-8, is treasurer of Penn College, Ok- 
lahoma, Iowa. 

James Wallace Darrow died at his home in 
Chatham, N. Y., Aug. 19, after a brief illness. 
He was born in Manlius, Onondaga Co., N, Y., 
Dec. 9, 1855, the son of Daniel and Sarah Louise 
Darrow. When he was a small boy his parents, 
moved to Canaan, N. Y.. where he attended the 
village schools. He afterwards studied at 
Claverack College, Hudson River Institute, and 
Worcester Academy. In college he was a mem- 
ber of Delta L'psilon. He was associate editor 
of the Rural New Yorker, 1880-83, and editor 
and proprietor of the Chatham Courier, 1883- 



1912. In 1893 he established the Renssalaer 
Courier, and later the Fancier's Review, a poul- 
try journal, and the Practical Dairyman. The 
last two he sold to western publishing houses 
after conducting them successfully for several 
years. His most prominent outside work was 
his connection with the State and National 
grange or Patrons of Husbandry. He was a 
charter member and one of the founders of the 
Chatham grange and its master for several years. 
He was chosen press correspondent of the New 
York State grange and represented the order in 
the national conventions, all news matter pass- 
ing through his hands. He was the originator 
and editor of the grange page of the American 
Press association of New York city. At the time 
of his death he edited the Grange Review, the 
official paper of the New York State grange. 
His grange booklets, covering the history and 
special features of grange work, nine or ten in 
number, continue to have a large sale. He was 
also the author of several booklets on poultry, 
stock, and dairy subjects. He was a member of 
the New York State Press association and was 
sent as a delegate to the National editorial con- 
vention at St. Louis in 1904. He was a mem- 
ber of the Select Country Weeklies Association 
of New York state. For several years he re- 
ported the state fair as special correspondent for 
the New York Tribune and many prominent ag- 
ricultural papers. He joined the East Chatham 
Baptist church when nineteen years of age and 
when he moved to Chatham became a member 
of the First Reformed church, in which he 
had served continuously as deacon and elder for 
the past twenty-three years. He was superin- 
tendent of the Reformed Sunday school for 
nearly nineteen years. For many years he had 
conducted a large adult Bible class. He was 
connected with the coimty and state Sunday 
school work, being president of his district at 
the time of his death. For many years he was 
the leader of the church choir and had entire 
charge of the music. He joined Columbia Ma- 
sonic Lodge in 1883. He held various elective 
and appointive offices, and served for several 
years on the board of education. His favorite 
recreation was watching a game of baseball. He 
was the first president of the Northern Columbia 
baseball league in 1909. when the league was a 
strictly amateur organization, and that season 
was one of the most successful in the history of 
the game in Columbia county. Mr. Darrow 
married in 1881 Miss Ida E. Goodrich, who sur- 
vives him with two daughters, Mrs. Robert 
Goldsmith of Chatham and Mrs. Willard F. Riv- 
enburgh of Highland, N. Y,, and one son, Wil- 
liam Wallace of Chatham, also an only brother, 
W. Porter Darrow of Chatham. 
1881 
Mr. Hughes, in a speech delivered in Carnegie 
Hall, New York city, July 31, accepted the Re- 
publican nomination for the presidency. He 
began his campaign, Aug. 7. with six speeches 
in Detroit. For reports and discussions of his 
subsequent activities, see the front and editorial 
pages of the daily papers of the country. 

1884. 
Dr. Robert Henry Ferguson has compiled a 



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volume issued by the medical department of E. 
R. Squibb & Sons of New York, entitled "the 
non-surgical treatment of intestinal stasis and 
constipation; also an important announcement 
regarding liquid petrolatum."" The volume con- 
tains 109 pages and is fully indexed. The com- 
piler presents a systematized body of opinion on 
the subject, drawn from a large number of 
sources. While written primarily for physicians 
and surgeons, the book is not above the compre- 
hension of the intelligent layman. 
1893 

Professor W. J. V. Osterhout of the Labora- 
tory of Plant Physiology, Harvard University, 
has recently published the following articles: 
Measurement of toxicity; The determination of 
additive effects; The decrease of permeability 
produced by anesthetics; The nature of me- 
chanical stimulation; The significance of color 
changes in oxidase reagents. 
1894. 

Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., has just is- 
sued a leaflet announcing that the school will 
open on October third. President John Hope 
will be supported by a faculty of nearly twenty 
instructors. Within the last ten years its en- 
rollment in the College has trebled while the 
Academy has nearly quadrupled, the total figures 
for last year being -llS. The departments are 
Collegiate, Academic, English Preparatory, and 
Theological. Special advantages are offered to 
those who are interested in music. Athletics are 
under the supervision of the College faculty and 
constant watchcare is exercised over the health 
of the students. 

1893 

Amasa R. T. Truex was, at latest accounts, 
practicing law at Los Angeles, Cal. 

Edward W. Corliss. ex-'95, well known as a 
writer of Brown song music, died of pneumonia 
at his home in New York, Sept, 20. 
1896 

Elmer S. Bailey, ex-'0(), is an architect with 
offices at 33 Cornhill st., Boston. 

William A. Jones is New England editor of 
the National Press Bureau, with office at 176 
Federal St., Boston. He lives in Newtonville. 

Henry H. Rockwell is president and treasurer 
of Rockwell & Mathewson, Inc., manufacturers 
of machinery, 101 Tremont st., Boston. His 
home is at 78 Gibbs st., Brookline. 

William W. Rugg is in the real estate business 
with Henry W. Savage & Co., Inc., 129 Tre- 
mont St., Boston. 

Harry L. Thompson is a lawyer with offices at 
6 Beacon St., Boston. He lives at Needham. 

Harry L. Thompson, Brown "96, and Boston 
University Law School "06, has been engaged 
for a second time to give a series of ten lectures 
in the Law of Bankruptcy, before the Senior and 
Junior classes of the Suffolk School of Law, 
which has an enrollment of about 600 students. 
1898 

Among the members of the class present at 
last Commencement were James S. Allen, Jr.. 
Frederick W. Arnold, Jr., Dr. Albert A. Bar- 



rows, Dwight K. Bartlett, Dr. William H. Buf- 
fum, William H. Cady, Dr. Charles Carroll, 
Clinton H. Currier. Theodore E. Dexter, George 
L. Drowne, Albert M. Dunham, John A. Gam- 
mons, Charles H. George, II, Dr. Edward S. 
Gushee, George M. Gustin, Ratcliffe G. E. 
Hicks, Ralph K. Hyde, George W. Morris, Ro- 
land C. Powers, Albert L. Rodman, Thomas E. 
Steere, M. L. B. Sweatt, Stacy R. Warburton. 
1899 

Rev. A. Mangano, who has charge of the 
Italian work in Brooklyn, also of the Italian 
department of Colgate University, has been 
spending a few days in Texas, visiting some of 
the Italian colonies in that state. He is com- 
piling data for a volume on Italians in the United 
States, to be published by the Missionary Edu- 
cation Movement. 

George Warren Parker, who has been instruc- 
tor in English at Colby Academy since 1907, has 
been made headmaster of the High School, 
Pittsfield, N. H. 

1901 

Rev. Anders Hovistendahl, sp. 1901. died in 
Providence, June 1,5, aged 59 years. 

Principal Ernest G. Hapgood of Boston gave 
an address, June 30, at the second annual confer- 
ence of Massachusetts School Administrators, on 
"The principaFs duty in improving instruction."' 

Evangelist John M. Linden began his new 
year of revival work in a large tent at Bowen, 
111., Aug. 23. On Sept. 19 he led the seven 
churches of Red Oak, Iowa, in a large taber- 
nacle seating over two thousand people. On 
Oct. 26 he opens a tabernacle campaign leading 
the churches of Honeoye Falls, N. Y., in a revi- 
val effort. Thousands of people were converted 
in the meetings held by Mr. Linden in last 
year's work. 

1902 

The Pacific Mills Corporation has acquired pos- 
session of a large cotton manufacturing plant at 
Columbia, S. C., and Irving Southworth, re- 
cently agent of the Cocheco Mills at Dover, N. 
H., a department of the Pacific Mills, has as- 
sumed charge as agent. 

Married in Philadelphia, June 24, Ernest P. 
B. Atwood and Miss Ellen Whitaker Adkins, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Clark Adkins 
of Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Atwood are at 
home at 210 Waterman st.. Providence. 

The Moody Manual Company, 33 Broadway, 
New York city, announces the addition to its or- 
ganization of George Burdick. recently fi- 
nancial editor of the New York Tribune. He 
had been with the Tribune for fourteen years, 
puring which time he held the responsible posi- 
tions of city editor and financial Editor. He 
has a wide knowledge of corporation and gen- 
eral business affairs as well as a very valuable 
experience in the financial district. His posi- 
tion with the Moody Manual Company will be 
that of assistant financial editor. He will 
specialize along the lines of investigation and in 
the obtaining of and analyzing material for the 
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G. Edward Buxton, Jr., has been made First 
Lieutenant of Company I of tiie Ninth Training 
Regiment at Plattsburg. 
1903 

Sherman A. Allen, for six years head of the 
department of French and German in the Har- 
risburg. Pa.. Academy, enters this fall the fac- 
ulty of the Brockton, Mass.. High School as the 
head of the department of Modern Languages. 
His address is 120S Warren av. 
1905 

William K. Hickman is in the lumber business, 
associated with the Nicola. Stone and Myers 
Lumber Co., Cleveland, Ohio. He is the nomi- 
nee of the Prohibition party for the short term 
in the United States Senate from Indiana. 

H. W. Hastings, now a professor of English at 
the New York State College for Teachers. Al- 
bany, married, June 24, Miss Louise Ward 
Clement, (Mount Holyoke. '03), daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Clement of Albany. 
Professor Hastings received the degree of Ph.D. 
at Harvard last commencement. His thesis was 
on "The Scientific Spirit in English Novels from 
1830 to 1900." He has been giving courses in 
tho Summer Session of Dartmouth College. His 
class in advanced composition wrote and edited 
the weekly newspaper of the Session, as an ex- 
periment in composition methods. 

Edward Staples Smith received the degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Vir- 
ginia last June. He is now instructor in Math- 
ematics at the University of Cincinnati. 
1906 

The engagement is announced of Professor 
Edgar S. Brightman and Miss Irma B. Fall, 
both of Middletown, Conn. 
1907 

Leon E. Truesdell married. June 19. Con- 
stance Ethel Cole at the bride's home. 37 Web- 
ster ave., Chelsea. Mass. He received A. M. 
as well as A. B. at the end of his four year 
course, and was prominent in college literarj' ac- 
tivities, being in his Senior year editor-in-chief 
of the Brunonian. The bride is an accomplished 
musician and a graduate of the Yale Music 
School. They will live in Washington. D. C. , 
where Mr. Truesdell has a responsible position in 
editing the bulletins sent out by the Department 
of Agriculture. 

1908 

Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Hubbard announce the 
birth of a daughter. Genevieve, May 18, at 
Charleston, 111. 

Earle W. Peckham. A. M., who for the past 
three years has been principal of the Newport, 
Vt.,High School, has been elected sub-master of 
the High School at Concord, Mass. 

Although the name of Howard M. Chapin is 
not signed to the pamphlet recently published 
by the Rhode Island Historical Society descrip- 
tive of its "Museum illustrating the history of 
the state," he is understood to be its author. 
The pamphlet is attractively written and con- 
tains 3-3 pages besides numerous illustrations. 

Ralph P. Boas, associate professor of English 
in Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., is 



this year on leave of absence as Austin Scholar 
in Harvard University. His address is 24 Lake 
St., Cambridge, Mass. 

S. S. Winslow, a first lieutenant of the Coast 
Artillery stationed at Portland, was detailed for 
duty at the Plattsburg Military Training Camps 
this summer. In December he leaves for the 
Philippines for two years' service in those islands. 
1909 

Hugh F. Cameron has been appointed Assist- 
ant Registrar of the University to succeed El- 
liott T. Bugbee. 

Thomas P. Ayer has been appointed to the 
Reading Room staff of the Library of Congress. 
He began his services Aug. 1. 

1910 

Married, in Whiting. Indiana, Sept. 2, Dr. 
Edward John Shaffer and Miss Marian Frances 
Beaubien. They will be at home after Nov. 1 at 
1286 Atchison av.. Whiting. 

Mr. and Mrs. George Carder Hazard announce 
the marriage of their daughter. Flora Hallie, to 
Harold Dave L'Amoureux, June 17, at the 
bride's home in Providence. After leaving col- 
lega Mr. L'Amoureux was employed with the 
Grand Trunk force engaged in constructing the 
Southern New England Railway, and later went 
to Ontario to join a force of Canadian Pacific 
railway engineers engaged in double-tracking 
the line from Toronto to Detroit. During 1914- 
and 1915 he was with the valuation force of the 
Boston and Maine railroad and recently went to 
New York to enter the valuation department of 
the Lehigh Valley railroad. Mrs. L'Amoureux 
attended the Classical high school in Providence 
and was graduated from the decorative design 
course of the Rhode Island School of Design in 
1913. After an inspection trip over the lines of 
the Lehigh Valley railroad, with stops at Niag- 
ara Falls and Toronto, they will reside at 396 
Clermont av., Brooklyn, N, Y. 

Born. July 22, to Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Palmer 
of 1035 Washington st., Easton, Pa., a son, 
Hugh Douglas Palmer. 

Married, July 20, in Washington, Harold Les- 
lie Wheeler and Miss Kate Weston Tipton, 
daughter of Mrs. Mary A. Tipton of Washing- 
ton. Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler are at home at 
Rolla. Mo. 

Albert A. Bennett is adjunct professor of 
Mathematics at the University of Texas, his ad- 
dress being 910 W. 26th st., Austin, Tex. 

1911 

Rev. Dr. and Mrs. James Lisk announce the 
marriage of their daughter, Alice Victoria, to 
Dr. Albert Whitman Sweet, of Newport, June 
26, at Twin Oaks. Sea Girt, N. J. Dr. Sweet is 
a member of Beta Theta Pi. He took up grad- 
ate work in the Biological Department, receiving 
the degree of Ph.D. in 1913. He is now chem- 
ist at the Newport Water Works, and has re- 
cently been appointed City Bacteriologist by the 
Board of Health. Mrs. Sweet is also a Brown 
graduate, in the class of 1913. 

Carol Arovonici, Ph.D. *11, is the author of 
"The Social Survey," just published by the 
Bureau of Social Research of the Seybert In- 



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stitution of Philadelphia. The volume has 30 
illustrations and a bibliography, and contains 268 
pages. It deals with the meaning, scope, 
method, character, and sources of information, 
of every branch of social survey effort. At the 
1916 meeting of the National Conference of 
Charities and Corrections of Indianapolis, Dr. 
Arovonici gave an address on "Wider Use of 
Case Records." 

Christopher A. Nolan recently received the 
degrees of Master of Laws and Master of Patent 
Law at Georgetown University, Washington, 
having completed a graduate course and a spec- 
ial course on patents. For many years he was 
in the Government service at Washington but he 
has resigned and has entered into a partnership 
under the firm name of J. I. Devlin & C. A. 
Nolan, for the general practice of the law, in- 
cluding the securing of patents and litigation re- 
specting infringements thereof. The offices of 
the new firm are 438, 4.-29 and 430 Grosvenor 
Building, Providence. 

1912 

Married, in Providence, June 21, Frederick 
George Rawlings and Miss Elizabeth Adams. 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Everett W. Adams of 
East Providence. Mr. and Mrs. Rawlings are 
at home at 103 Oakland av.. Providence. 

Mr. and Mrs. Irving Burney announce the 
marriage of their daughter Kathryn Marie to 
Charles Roland Klebes, Sept, 9, at Elgin, 111. 
They will be at home after Nov. 1, at 6415 Har- 
per av., Chicago, 111. 

1913 

Dr. W. L. Dealey is collaborator with A. A. 
Douglass in the authorship of "Micronotion 
studies applied to education," published in the 
Pedagogical Seminary of Clark University in 
June and also issued separately. The study 
was made in co-operation with Frank B. and 
Mrs. L. M. Gilbrett, Ph.D. '14. and the illustra- 
tions were taken from the work of the Bridgham 
Street School, Providence. 

Rev. J. Russell Case will sail from San Fran- 
cisco, October 11, for Burma, where he goes as 
missionary under the American Baptist Foreign 
Missionary Society. 

1914 

Elliott T. Bugbee is private secretary to John 
Markle of New York. 

Earl Whittemore Harrington and Susan Ellen 
Roberts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
Roberts, were married at the Church of the 
Epiphany, Providence, June 3, at 6 o'clock in 
the evening. They are at home at 1263 Eddy 
St., Providence. 

Peter F. Dugan is reporting for the Boston 
Herald. 

Henry P. Reynolds is working for Swift & 
Company at Denver. Col. 

Edward T. Brackett is selling bonds in Bos- 
ton. 

1915 

Clarence T. Hamill is a demonstrator in Chem- 
istry at McGill University, his address being 313 
Prince Arthur st., Montreal, Canada. 



1916 

Ernest Fremont Mattison of Edgewood died 
Sunday, Sept. 10, as a result of the capsizing of 
a sailboat near Plymouth. With Donald H. 
Allen, also of Edgewood, he sailed from Scituate, 
Mass., at 5 o'clock Saturday night and, until 
midnight the weather was fine. They were off 
Manomet Beach, seven miles from Plymouth, 
when they were overtaken by a squall and, be- 
fore they could shorten sail, the boat was cap- 
sized. The two young men, both expert swim- 
mers, battled for three hours in the darkness 
until Mattison 's strength gave out. Then Allen 
tied him to the mast, which they had worked 
loose for support, and made a desperate effort to 
tow him to shore. When within 100 yards of 
safety, Allen found that his companion was dead 
from exhaustion. Leaving the mast behind he 
struck out for the shore, staggered to a tent 
nearby and collapsed. When he recovered con- 
sciousness it was morning and he found help to 
search for the body of his companion. It was 
found a short distance away on the beach under 
the sail, which was still fastened to the mast. 
The medical examiner said that death was due 
to heart failure, brought on by exhaustion, as 
there was no water in the lungs. Mattison had 
been an athlete all his life, playing baseball and 
football at the Cranston high school, and being a 
member of the swimming team and captain of 
the 'Varsity gymnastic team at Brown. He was 
the college gymnast last year. He won second 
place for Brown in the intercollegiate gym meet 
in Philadelphia, March 31, 1915, by his all- 
round work, and throughout the season was the 
most consistent point winner on thescjuad. He 
won 92 points for the year, which consisted of 
15 first places, five seconds and two thirds. He 
was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, and was one 
of the most popular members of his class. For 
three summers he had been swimming instructor 
at Marblehead and Anisquara. and last summer 
had been employed by the Providence Telephone 
Company in the engineering division. He was 
born in Edgewood, and is survived by his par- 
ents, Mr, and Mrs. Edgar F. Mattison; two sis- 
ters, Ethel and Abbie, and a brother, Robert. 

1918 

Harold E. Collins, oldest son of Walter E. 
and the late Alice T. Collins, died of pneumonia, 
in Providence, July 6, in his twentieth year. He 
was a member of the track team. 



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Mmnie W. Taylor has a position in the United 
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and at present is assisting in the eradication of 
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